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Murder of Palestinian journalist is an Israeli attempt to kill the truth

The body of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh is carried on a stretcher at a hospital following an Israeli raid, in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank May 11, 2022. [Reuters]

Oppressive and illegitimate regimes are known for trying every dirty and bloody tactics in their cold playbook to prevent whatever inconveniencing and uncomfortable truths that they may be hiding from their people and the world at large. 

But history has time and again demonstrated that truth is always unconcealable and unstoppable powerful; and no matter how long an injustice reigns, its expiry date will inevitably come at some point. 

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