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Avichay Adraee: Veteran Al Jazeera journalist killed by Palestinian fire in West Bank
“Initial estimates show that…Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqleh was killed by Palestinian gunmen in Jenin camp while doing a news coverage,” military spokesman Avichay Adraee claimed in a tweet.
Abu Aqleh, 51, was shot dead while covering an Israeli invasion in the city of Jenin Wednesday morning. Another journalist, Ali Al-Samoudi, was shot in the back, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
The Doha-based Al Jazeera channel charged Israeli forces with deliberately killing its reporter “in cold blood.” It termed the killing a “heinous crime, which intends to only prevent the media from conducting their duty.”
Al-Samoudi previously stated that Abu Akleh and other journalists came under fire near UNRWA schools in Jenin while covering the Israeli raid.
“We were directly targeted by the occupation forces,” he said in many statements.
“The place where the journalists were present was clear to the occupation soldiers, and there were no armed men or clashes in that area,” he said.
Videos on social media platforms presented people transferring the Al Jazeera journalist in a car, while she was wearing a press vest.
An earlier Israeli military statement said Israeli forces launched a movement in the Jenin refugee camp to arrest wanted Palestinians, suggesting that the journalist may have been shot by Palestinians as they clashed with Israeli forces, which “responded with fire, without causing any casualties.”
