[JPost] Ghufran Warasneh was shot when attempting to stab IDF troops, and was arrested for a previous stabbing attempt. Ghufran Warasneh, who had been shot by IDF troops on Wednesday when she allegedly approached them brandishing a knife, was characterized by UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese and Palestinian activists as being "another journalist killed" by Israel last week.
“The news of another Palestinian journalist killed, hits with deep sorrow," tweeted Albanese. She called for journalists to be respected and not harmed, and to actively ensure that they were protected. "Condemning the death of a prominent journalist while glossing over the rest, breeds impunity."
The tweet was later deleted, according to Albanese, accidentally.
"The Israeli apartheid regime just shot and killed the second Palestinian journalist in less than a month," said Benjamin Norton, editor at Multipolarista.
"Ghufran Warasneh, Palestinian journalist shot dead today by the Israelis."
Journalist Richard Medhurst
Pro-Israel critics asserted that Warasneh had been involved in a terrorist attack near the al-Arroub refugee camp at the time of her death, and had previously been arrested for another stabbing attack attempt. According to Channel 12, Warasneh had been involved in a previous attack.
"Of course what the UN Palestinian ’Special Rapporteur’ conveniently omits is that the so-called ’journalist’ Ghufran Warasneh lunged at IDF soldiers with a knife in attempt to kill them...and that was not first time she tried that," Arsen Ostrovsky, chairman and CEO of The International Legal Forum, replied to Albanese.
Of course what the UN Palestinian ’Special Rapporteur’ conveniently omits is that the so-called ’journalist’ Ghufran Warasneh lunged at IDF soldiers with a knife in attempt to kill them ... and that was not first time she tried that. Minor details, right @FranceskAlbs? https://t.co/JNX0bcou5m pic.twitter.com/wrolFjQO2U
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) June 2, 2022