Shireen Abu Akleh: Israel Army Admits Al Jazeera Journalist May Have Been Shot Accidentally

Shireen Abu Akleh: Israel Army Admits Al Jazeera Journalist May Have Been Shot Accidentally

Shireen Abu Akleh : For the first time, the Israeli army acknowledged on Monday that one of its soldiers had probably shot Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh after mistaking her for a militant. According to the army's final report on its inquiry into Ms. Abu Akleh's death on May 11, "there is a high likelihood that Ms. Abu Akleh was inadvertently wounded by IDF (Israel Defence Forces) gunfire that was fired targeting suspects identified as armed Palestinian gunmen." After claiming for months that it was impossible to verify the source of the fatal shot that killed the renowned Al Jazeera journalist in the occupied West Bank and that it may have been insurgent fire, the army has officially acknowledged the incident. A senior Israeli military officer stated, "Our opinion is that it's not possible to tell with absolute certainty which gunfire killed her, but there's a larger possibility that she was hit by an errant shot of an IDF soldier who did…