Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the most famous of the Arab channel Al-Jazeera, was killed on Wednesday morning by Israeli army fire while she was covering clashes in the Jenin sector in the occupied West Bank, noted a AFP journalist.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health and the al-Jazeera channel immediately announced the death of this journalist by Israeli army fire during these clashes in Jenin, a stronghold of the Palestinian armed factions in the north of the occupied West Bank.
Another journalist was injured during the clashes, hospital sources and an AFP photographer on the spot said.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army did not immediately comment on the death of this journalist from the al-Jazeera channel, which comes almost a year to the day after the destruction of the Jalaa tower, where located the offices of the Qatari channel in the Gaza Strip, during an Israeli airstrike in the midst of a war between the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and the Jewish state.
Since March 22, Israel has been the target of a series of attacks that have killed at least 18 people. Two of his attacks were perpetrated by Israeli Arabs, and four of them by Palestinians, including three young people from Jenin, where the Israeli army has stepped up operations in recent weeks.