Palestinian-American journalist killed by Israeli forces in West Bank raid, Al Jazeera says.
The death of Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known reporter for the broadcast network's Arabic language channel, sparked immediate outrage in the region and beyond.she was shot by Israeli security forces. Israel suggested she may have been killed by Palestinian gunmen in clashes during the raid.
“We pledge to prosecute the perpetrators legally, no matter how hard they try to cover up their crime, and bring them to justice,” the Qatar-based network said in a statement.Nedal Eshtayah / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images“Shireen Abu Akleh contributed to forming the memory of an entire generation & telling the Palestinian story to the world,” he said in a. “Shireen was killed by the Israeli occupation while documenting their horrific crimes against our people.
His office said Israel offered Palestinians a"joint pathological analysis and investigation, which would be based on all of the existing documentation and findings, in order to get to the truth." It said that so far, that offer had been refused. He told The Associated Press that he was working as Abu Akleh's producer, with the pair among a group of reporters who went to cover the raid on Wednesday morning. Samoudi said the group were all wearing protective gear that clearly identified them as reporters, and that there were no militants or other people in the area at the time of the shooting.
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