The shot that killed international television channel Al Jazeera Shireen Abu Akleh was fired by Israeli troops during a military attack on the city of Jenin on May 11, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights revealed. THE information is advanced by AgenceFrancePresse (AFP)
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Shireen Abu Akleh died on May 11 near the Jenin Palestinian refugee camp, in the West Bank – Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 -, where an Israeli military operation was taking place that day.
At the time she was shot, the Palestinian-American journalist was wearing a bulletproof vest, on which the word Press was inscribed.
At that time, the Palestinian authorities claimed that Shireen Abu Akleh was “martyr during the occupation of Jenin”, after Israeli forces shot him in the head. Successively, the israeli army attributed the shooting of journalists to alleged Palestinian “terrorists”.
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Two days later, on May 13, the outrage that the journalist’s death caused throughout the world would worsen with the images of the funeral. Israeli security forces cracked down on Abu Akleh’s funeral procession outside St. Joseph, using batons and gas bombs. The police charge even hit the men carrying the coffin, which almost fell to the ground.
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Prior to the UN investigation, the Palestinian Authority Attorney General’s Office demonstrated that the Arabic channel reporter was hit by a 5.56mm bullet fired from a Ruger M40, a US precision weapon, and that “the only source of the shooting was the Israeli occupation.” cash”.
Palestinian Attorney General Says Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Was Killed By Israeli Soldier
Also a CNN investigation, the findings of which were made public about a month ago, offered evidence that there was no active fighting, or Palestinian militants, near Shireen Abu Akleh in the moments before his death, suggesting he was killed in an attack. . led by Israeli forces.
The Israeli army deliberately fired on the group Shireen Abu Akleh
At the age of 51, Shireen Abu Akleh was “one of the first Al Jazeera correspondents in the field”having started working for the international television channel based in Qatar in 1997.
Source: Observadora
