Israel | Israel admits that the al-Jazeera reporter was probably killed by an Israeli soldier’s bullet

of Israel the military admitted for the first time on Monday that an al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh probably killed by a bullet fired by an Israeli soldier.

According to news agency AFP, the Israeli military’s final investigation report says the Palestinian-American journalist’s death was caused by an Israeli bullet, although the military has said for months that it was impossible to determine the source of the fatal shot.

According to the Israeli army, Israeli soldiers fired at Abu Akleh because they mistook the journalist for a Palestinian militant.

of the UN according to the June investigation, at the time of the journalist’s death, there was no evidence of armed Palestinian activity in the surrounding areas.

Abu Akleh died on May 11 in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank while reporting on a raid by Israeli forces. He was wearing the press vest, bulletproof vest and helmet used by journalists.

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