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Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

The United Nations on Shireen Abu Akleh

Published on: 26 June, 2022
Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head on May 11 while she was on an assignment in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank/ Aljazeera.

Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head on May 11 while she was on an assignment in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank/ Aljazeera.

The United Nations said on Friday that information it had gathered showed that the shot that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on MAY 11 was fired by Israeli forces.

“The results of the UN investigation confirm once again what we said from the start, that Israel is responsible for the killing of the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and it must be held accountable for this crime,” Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, told Reuters.

All information the U.N. human rights office had gathered, it said, was consistent with the finding that the shots that killed Abu Akleh and injured her colleague Ali Sammoudi came from Israeli security forces and not from indiscriminate firing by armed Palestinians.

“It is deeply disturbing that Israeli authorities have not conducted a criminal investigation,” Ravina Shamdasani told a briefing in Geneva.

Aljazeera/Reuters.