REPLAY: Funeral for Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh
The funeral for Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh killed in the West Bank on Wednesday takes place in Ramallah on Thursday, May 12. People gather to honour the late journalist including the President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas. The incident happened while a filming crew was covering an Israeli raid in the West Bank town of Jenin. Al Jazeera blamed Israeli forces for the death of Shireen, and the Palestinian health ministry said that the journalist was shot in the head when she was wearing her press bulletproof vest. The Israeli military claimed that its forces were attacked while operating in Jenin before they fired back, and said that they are "investigating the event and looking into the possibility that the journalists were hit by Palestinian gunmen."
Source - Ruptly