The Israeli military admits that the man who kill Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in May was not a militant but an Israeli soldier.
According to the report of the foreign news agency “AFP”, the investigation report by the Israeli authorities says that “There is a strong possibility that a shot is fire by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) at a suspect Palestinian gunman and it accidentally hit Shireen Abu Akleh.”
A senior Israeli military official says that it is not clear which bullet kill the journalist.
But there is a strong possibility that the journalist is accidentally kill by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier. Who can not identify her as a journalist’.
The Israeli official tell reporters that heavy firing was going on where the soldiers were. And they open fire on the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh mistaking it for a Palestinian fighter.
He says that ‘when the soldier fire at her, he did not know that she is a journalist.
The official says, “It is very clear that the soldier do this unintentionally, he regrets it and so I do as well.
UN investigation completes in June this year states that there is no evidence of the presence of any Palestinians when Shireen Abu Akleh is shoot.
When journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is shot dead by the Israeli army on May 11. She was wearing a helmet and a bulletproof vest with the word ‘Press’ clearly written on it.
The family of journalist Shireen Abu Aklehsays that “in the report of the Israeli army and the press release issued after that, Israel refuses to accept the responsibility for the murder of the journalist”.