Israeli army acknowledges 'strong possibility' of killing journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

The Israeli army acknowledged for the first time on Monday that there was "

" that the journalist of the pan-Arab channel Al Jazeera Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in May by one of its soldiers.

Al Jazeera star, the American-Palestinian journalist was shot dead on May 11 while covering an Israeli military operation in the Palestinian camp of Jenin, a stronghold of the Palestinian armed factions in the north of the occupied West Bank, where a special unit was trying to apprehend "

", which had led to armed clashes.

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After the death of Shireen Abu Akleh, equipped with a bullet-proof vest with the words “

” and a helmet, the Palestinian Authority and her employer Al Jazeera immediately accused the Israeli army of having killed her.

Israel has consistently rejected this accusation, despite journalistic investigations and a UN report concluding that an Israeli shot was fired, which however ruled out that it was deliberate.

However, on Monday, the Israeli army published the "

" of its investigation and admitted that one of its soldiers had indeed fired in the direction of the journalist, mistaking her identity: "

”.

The army said it studied the sequence of events "

", analyzed the scene, the videos and sounds recorded on the spot, conducted a "

" and that "

" conducted a ballistic analysis of the ball, on July 2, in the presence of representatives of the "

".

Due to the “

”, identifying its origin was “

”, underlines the army in its report, saying that it does not have “

” certainty of the origin of the fatal shot at the journalist.