Calls are growing for an independent probe into the murder of Al Jazeera veteran reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. The 51 year old Palestinian-American journalist was shot and killed, reportedly by Israeli forces, during a raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin on early Wednesday, May 11.
Abu Akleh was shot in the head while covering an Israeli military raid on the outskirts of Jenin refugee camp in northern West Bank. The Israel army initially claimed that the respected journalist might have been killed by stray Palestinian fire, further claiming that their militants were also present in the area at the time of her death.
However, Abu Akleh’s producer, Palestinian journalist Ali Samoudi, was also present and even wounded in the incident. Samoudi, who was shot in the back and currently in the hospital in stable condition, has blamed Israeli forces.
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