Shereen Abu Aqleh was a Palestinian-American journalist, who was killed while covering an Israeli army operation in Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
We at the UN human rights office have concluded our independent monitoring of the incident. The shots that killed Abu Aqleh and injured her colleague Ali Samodi came from Israeli security forces and not from indiscriminate firing by armed Palestinians, as initially claimed by Israeli authorities according to a report by the UN.
When Is Shereen Abu Aqleh Funeral?
The funeral for the fifty-six-year-old journalist was held on May 13 in Jerusalem after a full state memorial in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Many people lined the streets on Thursday as her coffin, draped in the Palestinian flag, was driven through the city and taken to East Jerusalem.
Israeli forces are reported to have attacked the funeral procession for a Palestinian American journalist, kicking and hitting people with batons and causing mourners carrying her coffin to lose balance and drop it to the ground.
They claim the mourners were disrupting public peace as they waved Palestinian flags and made Pro Palestinian chants.
