The Israeli Army Did Not Admit Killing Shireen Abu Akleh, Nor Did Haaretz Report It

Misbar investigated the circulating claim and found it to be fake. The Israeli army did not officially admit Shireen Abu Akleh's death, instead of denying responsibility. Furthermore, the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz did not report that the Israeli army admitted to killing Abu Akleh. The article published what it claims are the findings of internal Israeli army investigations into the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces.

Photo  Description:  Screenshot of the Haaretz article in Hebrew.

Photo Description:  Screenshot of the Haaretz article in Arabic.

Haaretz Reports on the Israeli Investigations of the Killing of Abu Akleh

On May 11, 2022, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published the findings of preliminary investigations conducted by the Israeli army's Central Command in the occupied West Bank. Shireen Abu Akleh was shot between 100 and 150 meters away from IDF forces in Jenin, according to the article.

According to the newspaper, investigations revealed that the Israeli army's "Dovdfan unit" fired dozens of bullets and Palestinian gunmen fired hundreds, but it was unclear whether Abu Akleh was shot by the Israeli army or the Palestinian gunmen.

The Martyrdom of Shireen Abu Akleh

Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera correspondent in Palestine, was killed by an Israeli sniper on Wednesday morning, May 11, while covering the Israeli forces' storming of the Jenin refugee camp.

Shireen Abu Akleh was born in the occupied city of Jerusalem in 1971 and earned a BA in Journalism and Media from Yarmouk University in Jordan's Hashemite Kingdom. She has worked for the Voice of Palestine Radio, the Amman Satellite Channel, the UNRWA website, the Miftah Foundation, and Monte Carlo Radio. She later became one of Al Jazeera Media Network's first field correspondents in Palestine in 1997, one year after the network's inception.

Translated by Dina Fasial