The conclusions of the UN investigation are final. Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed on May 11 by Israeli defense forces, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded on Friday (June 24).
“All information collected, including the Israeli army and the Palestinian attorney general, corroborate the fact that the shots that killed Ms. Abu Akleh and injured her colleague Ali Sammoudi came from the Israeli security forces and not from indiscriminate shooting by armed Palestinians, as initially claimed by the Israeli authorities”, has declared Ravina Shamdasani, during a press briefing in Geneva (Switzerland).
The journalist was covering a military operation by the Israeli army in the city of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. She was wearing a bulletproof vest with the word “press” written on it and a hard hat when she was hit by a bullet just below the cut of her helmet. After his death, thehe Israeli army, accused by several parties, had denied its involvement, while ensuring that it had opened an investigation after these clashes described as “massive”.