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Israeli Military Won’t Investigate Killing of Al Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh 

HeadlineMay 19, 2022

Israel’s military has decided not to open a criminal investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh — that’s according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Witnesses and fellow journalists say the Palestinian American journalist was killed by an Israeli soldier while reporting on an Israeli military raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Abu Akleh’s family had told Al Jazeera that they would not be surprised if Israel failed to investigate her killing.

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