Her colleague Ali Sammoudi is wounded. The UN human rights office subsequently concludes that the shots hitting the journalists came from Israeli forces and calls for a criminal investigation. That later finding is distinguished from conflicting accounts at the time of her death.
Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh killed in Jenin
On 11 May 2022, Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is killed while covering an Israeli operation in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
