The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says its findings have shown the bullets that killed veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last month were fired by Israeli forces.
Faraan: “We find that the shots that killed Abu Akleh came from Israeli security forces,” OHCHR’s spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva on Friday.
“It is deeply disturbing that Israeli authorities have not conducted a criminal investigation. We at the UN Human Rights Office have concluded our independent monitoring into the incident. The shots that killed Abu Akleh and injured her colleague Ali Sammoudi came from Israeli security forces and not from indiscriminate firing by armed Palestinians, as initially claimed by Israeli authorities,” Shamdasani added.
Stressing that the information came from the Israeli military and the Palestinian attorney general, the OHCHR’s spokeswoman said, “We have found no information suggesting that there was activity by armed Palestinians in the immediate vicinity of the journalists.”
