The reporter covered clashes in the Jénine sector, in the West Bank, when it was touched by a shot from the Israeli army.
Le Monde with AFP
The journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the best known in the Arab channel Al-Jazira, was killed Wednesday May 11 in the morning by a shot from the Israeli army while she covered clashes in the Jenine sector, In the West Bank, noted a journalist from the Agency France-Presse (AFP) on site.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health and The al-Jazira channel have, in the process, announced the death of this journalist by an army shot Israeli during these clashes in Jénine, Bastion of Palestinian armed factions in the north of the West Bank.
عاجل | استشهاد الزميلة شيرين أبو عاقلة برصاص جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي أثناء تغطيتها لاقتحام مخيم جنين https://t.co/bw6RCzGPAv
“[…] Shireen Abu Akleh covered the events that took place in Jenine, in particular an Israeli raid on the city, located north of the West Bank, when it was touched by a bullet in the head,” declared a channel manager. Transported in critical condition to the hospital, she was declared dead on the spot. It was a “highly respected journalist”, who worked for the channel since the start of the second intifada in 2000, he added. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, another Palestinian journalist was touched by a bullet in the back, but would be in a stable state.