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.
In the final conclusions of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) official probe, the army noted that a task force assigned to investigate the shooting was unable to “unequivocally determine the source of the gunfire” that hit Abu Akleh, adding that it remains a “high possibility” that she was hit by “IDF gunfire that was fired toward suspects identified as armed Palestinian gunmen.”…