Origin of Bullet That Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh ‘Inconclusive’: US State Department

Abu Akleh killed in crossfire between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli counterterrorism unit

Family and friends of al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, Anton Abu Akleh, attend a candle vigil outside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank Biblical city of Bethlehem on May 16, 2022. Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. Department of State on Monday said that independent investigators couldn’t clearly conclude the origin of the bullet that killed Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

The 51-year-old reporter for Al-Jazeera’s Arabic language channel died on May 11 while on assignment covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin and becoming caught in crossfire. When she was fatally shot in the head, Abu Akleh was wearing a bullet-proof vest that was marked “press.”