(Washington Post) Editorial - For journalists covering the world's conflict zones, the occupational hazards include kidnapping, serious injury and even death. A Washington Post investigation is noteworthy for what it did not uncover: proof that an Israeli soldier targeted Shireen Abu Akleh because she was a journalist. Still less did the Post report show that she was "assassinated in cold blood," as Al Jazeera declared within hours of her death. The whole incident could have been avoided but for a wave of West Bank-based Palestinian attacks that killed 19 Israelis, most of them civilians, in the six weeks before Abu Akleh's death and to which Israel was responding.
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