Al Jazeera News Today Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead while reporting on May 11
The United Nations said Friday it found that Israeli forces fired the shot that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, with Israel swiftly branding the UN’s findings unfounded.
The Palestinian-American TV reporter, who was wearing a vest marked «Press» and a helmet, was killed on May 11 while covering an Israeli army operation in Jenin camp in the northern West Bank.
«We find that the shots that killed Abu Akleh came from Israeli security forces,» UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva.
«It is deeply disturbing that Israeli authorities have not conducted a criminal investigation.»
She said the Human Rights Office had concluded its own independent monitoring into the incident.
«All information we have gathered..