A veteran Palestinian American journalist was killed by Israeli forces while covering a military raid in the occupied West Bank, according to an independent investigation published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday.
Mourners attend a memorial ceremony for Shireen Abu Aqleh, to mark the 40th day of the killing of the Al Jazeera journalist, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 19. TEL AVIV — She was not shot “from indiscriminate firing by armed Palestinians, as initially claimed by Israeli authorities,” the office added.
IDF spokesperson Ran Kochav first acknowledged the incident in a 7:45 a.m., saying: “The possibility that journalists were injured, possibly by Palestinian gunfire, is being investigated.”Later that morning, he told Army Radio that it was “likely” that a Palestinian gunman was responsible. By the end of the day, though, Israeli defense forces walked back those statements and said an Israeli soldier could have also been responsible for firing the fatal shot.
A week after the killing, however, the army said that it had not found evidence of criminal conduct in the killing which would be required for a military police probe. “More than six weeks after the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and injury of her colleague Ali Samoudi in Jenin on 11 May 2022, it is deeply disturbing that Israeli authorities have not conducted a criminal investigation,” said the statement from the U.N. Human Rights Office.published earlier this month by The Washington Post, which examined visual, audio and witness testimonies.
According to The Post’s analysis of available footage, though, an IDF convoy was present roughly 182 meters to 243 meters away from the group of journalists that included Abu Akleh.
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