The Al Jazeera journalist's death in May while covering an Israeli military operation sparked outrage
Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed during an Israeli raid in Jenin, May 11 2022. Picture: IMAD CREIDI/REUTERS
The Israeli military says that troops conducting operations in Jenin had come under heavy fire from all sides and had fired back, including towards the area where Abu Akleh was standing about 200m from their position, but that they had not been able to identify her as a journalist. Other witness accounts of the incident have disputed that Israeli positions were under fire from the area where Abu Akleh was standing when she was killed.
The Israeli investigation, which included interviews with the country’s soldiers, analysis of the scene as well as audio and video recordings, found it was “not possible to unequivocally determine the source of the gunfire” which killed Abu Akleh. Walid al-Omari, Al Jazeera’s local bureau chief, told Reuters that Israel’s conclusions of the incident were an attempt to avoid an independent criminal investigation.
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