Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed on May 11 by Israel Defense Forces gunfire, the Office of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded on Friday. June 24, a spokesperson, Ravina Shamdasani.
“All the information we have gathered – including from the Israeli army and the Palestinian attorney general – supports the fact that the shots that killed Mr.me Abu Akleh and wounded his colleague Ali Sammoudi came from the Israeli security forces and not from indiscriminate fire from armed Palestinians, as the Israeli authorities initially claimed”said M.me Shamdasani, during a press briefing in Geneva.
‘We found no information to suggest that there was any activity by armed Palestinians near the journalists’she insisted, believing that he was “deeply disturbing that the Israeli authorities have not opened a judicial investigation”.
The American-Palestinian journalist, star of the Al-Jazeera channel, wore a bulletproof jacket on which was written the word ” hurry “ and a protective helmet when she was hit by a bullet just below the cup of her helmet.
Several investigations, carried out by the chief Palestinian prosecutor or the American channel CNN, had also concluded that Mr.me Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli gunfire.
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