U.S. probe of journalist’s death ‘important step’: Abu Akleh family
The Hindu
Shireen Abu Akleh was killed while covering an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank on May 11
The family of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was likely killed by an Israeli soldier, on Tuesday praised a U.S. decision to open a probe into her death.
“This is an important step,” a statement from the Palestinian-American family said, voicing hope for a “truly independent, credible and thorough probe”.
Abu Akleh was killed while covering an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank on May 11.
The veteran reporter, who was a Christian, was wearing a bulletproof vest marked “Press” and a helmet when she was shot in the head in the Jenin refugee camp, a historic flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Israeli army conceded on September 5 that one of its soldiers had likely shot Abu Akleh after mistaking her for a militant.
The Abu Akleh family noted that it had been asking for a U.S. probe “since the beginning”.
“It is what the United States should do when a U.S. citizen is killed abroad, especially when they were killed, like Shireen, by a foreign military.”
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