Palestinian news correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was killed by gunfire while reporting for Al Jazeera during the Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, announced the Palestinian Ministry of Health on 11 May. Al Jazeera reports that Abu Akleh was rushed to a hospital in critical condition after the bullet struck her head, where she was later declared dead. Abu Akleh was wearing a press vest when she was shot. “We were going to film the Israeli army operation and suddenly they shot us without asking us to leave or stop filming,” reported Ali Samoudi to Al Jazeera, a colleague of Abu Akleh who was also shot in the back during the raid. “The first bullet hit me and the second bullet hit Shireen…there was no Palestinian military resistance at all at the scene,” said Samoudi. The news of Abu Akleh’s death comes in light of the large-scale Israeli raid on the city of Jenin, located on the West Bank. On 9 April, Israeli forces launched a raid on a refugee camp located in Jenin after attacks on Tel Aviv were identified to have originated…
Palestinian Al-Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Shot Dead During Israeli Raid
May 11, 2022
