The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCRC) confirmed that the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was killed on May 11 by Israeli forces’ bullets, while Israel ruled out that the bullet that hit her was intentional, considering that the UN investigation was “baseless.”
“All the information we have collected – including from the Israeli army and the Palestinian Attorney General (AG) – confirms the fact that the shots that killed Abu Aqila and wounded her colleague Ali Al-Samudi came from the Israeli security forces and not random shots,” a spokeswoman for the (UNHCHR ) Ravina Shamdasani told a press conference in Geneva.
“We did not find any information indicating that Palestinian militants carried out any activity near the journalists,” Shamdasani said, adding that “it is very worrying that the Israeli authorities have not opened a judicial investigation.”
