Shireen Abu Akleh Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli military raid in northern West Bank
Middle East Israel announces investigation into police charge at Al Jazeera journalist's funeral
Video Tension with the Israeli police at the funeral of the journalist murdered in the West Bank
The United Nations said on Friday that, according to its information, the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, of Al Jazeera, was shot dead by Israeli forces on May 11.
"All the information we have collected - including from the Israeli army and the Palestinian attorney general - corroborates that the shots that killed Abu Akleh and wounded his colleague Ali Sammoudi came from the Israeli security forces and not from indiscriminate shootings of Palestinians. armed," spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, told reporters in Geneva.
Archive photo of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.AFP
"We have not found any information suggesting that there was any activity by armed Palestinians near the journalists," Shamdasani stressed, considering it "deeply disturbing that the Israeli authorities have not opened any judicial investigation."
The Palestinian-American journalist was wearing a
bulletproof vest emblazoned with the word "press"
and a helmet, but the bullet struck her just below it.
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