Shireen Abu Akleh 1971 - 2022

The death of Shireen Abu Akleh has far-reaching consequences. She has shown the way how we should treat and support one another. She had an eye for ordinary people who were trapped by the occupation. She made many reports about Jenin, about the refugee camp there. She visited people's homes and told their story on Al Jazeera. Thus, the entire Arab world learned the reality of the Palestinians without censorship.

The challenge is ours how to honor her memory.

This requires us to realize what values ​​she has lived up to, which are important in our lives regardless of our background. This can be summed up in a sense of inclusive thinking. All people can be connected without any exception.

This is comprehensive. This takes the courage to overcome our fears of others who are different from us. Shireen overcame her fear of becoming a journalist and getting into dangerous situations. She realized this as a young woman.

In her, Palestinian young people have an example of how meaningful your life as a journalist can be by reporting without frills what the lives of people in pressure and oppression look like. This got through to the Arab viewers. This made it a threat to the occupiers and to rulers everywhere in the world, thanks to Al Jazeera, who made this possible.

The next step is to become each other's allies and bring about a change for the better by first and foremost listening carefully and understanding each other. Stay away from fake news and don't spread hatred. Giving the floor to ordinary people, taking children seriously. Let them speak. We were once a child.

Significantly, Shireen learned Hebrew to understand how the other side was thinking. Then she could better stand up for the Palestinian people.

It also takes getting to know ourselves well in order to know what our talents are in order to be allies with others of different talents.

Thus Shireen Abu Akleh lives on in us with dignity in peace as the mother of all Palestinians.