The Israeli army announced on Monday that there’s a “high possibility” a soldier had misidentified Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as an armed militant when she was “accidentally” shot and killed earlier this year.
Abu Akleh worked for the network’s Arabic language channel and died on May 11 while on assignment covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin. The 51-year-old Palestinian-American reporter was fatally shot in the head and was wearing a bullet-proof vest marked “press” at the time she was caught in the crossfire.
