{"id":14185,"date":"2022-06-24T20:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14185"},"modified":"2022-06-24T20:56:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:56:58","slug":"un-says-al-jazeera-journalist-killed-by-israeli-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14185","title":{"rendered":"UN says Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israeli fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United Nations said Friday that its findings showed that the shot that killed Al Jazeera TV journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11 was fired by Israeli forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Palestinian-American journalist, who was wearing a vest marked \u201cPress\u201d and a helmet, was killed on May 11 while covering an Israeli army operation in Jenin camp in the northern West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWe find that the shots that killed Abu Akleh came from Israeli security forces,\u201d<\/em> UN Human Rights Office spokesman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIt is deeply disturbing that Israeli authorities have not conducted a criminal investigation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWe at the UN Human Rights Office have concluded our independent monitoring into the incident.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"israeli\" class=\"wp-image-14186\" width=\"426\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-151x100.jpg 151w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-350x231.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview.jpg 1816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe shots that killed Abu Akleh and injured her colleague Ali Sammoudi came from Israeli security forces and not from indiscriminate firing by armed Palestinians, as initially claimed by Israeli authorities\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that the information came from the Israeli military and the Palestinian attorney-general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWe have found no information suggesting that there was activity by armed Palestinians in the immediate vicinity of the journalists,\u201d<\/em> Shamdasani said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In line with its human rights monitoring methodology, the UN rights office inspected photo, video and audio material, visited the scene, consulted experts, reviewed official communications and interviewed witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings showed that seven journalists arrived at the western entrance of the Jenin refugee camp soon after 6am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At around 6.30am, as four of the journalists turned into a particular street, \u201cseveral single, seemingly well-aimed bullets were fired towards them from the direction of the Israeli security forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cOne single bullet injured Ali Sammoudi in the shoulder; another single bullet hit Abu Akleh in the head and killed her instantly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has urged Israel to open a criminal investigation into Abu Akleh\u2019s killing and into all other killings by Israeli forces in the West Bank and in the context of law enforcement operations in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/\">NMT<\/a> as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/news-hub\">AFP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations said Friday that its findings showed that the shot that killed Al&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10892,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-war","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview.jpg",1816,1200,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-300x198.jpg",300,198,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-768x507.jpg",640,423,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-1024x677.jpg",640,423,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview-1536x1015.jpg",1536,1015,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview.jpg",1816,1200,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview.jpg",1280,845,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview.jpg",1024,677,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32AH3N8-preview.jpg",720,475,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=21\" rel=\"category\">Crime<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=10892\" rel=\"category\">War<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14187,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14185\/revisions\/14187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}