The Latest Breaking News from Shireen Abu Akleh

The family of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh submitted on Tuesday an official complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the killing of the veteran television correspondent. Head of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) Nasser Abu Bakr, member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Jimmy Boumleiha,…

A coalition of lawyers and advocacy groups has referred the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the International Criminal Court on behalf of her family

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Wednesday pushed back against suggestions of prosecuting a soldier who likely shot dead Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during an army operation this year. The veteran Al Jazeera reporter was wearing a bulletproof vest marked "Press" and a helmet when she was shot in…

Abu Akleh’s niece says Washington’s push to turn the page on the killing of the Al Jazeera journalist is ’embarrassing’.

Washington will press Israel to review its policies and practices on rules of engagement after the Israel Defense Forces concluded that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely shot by an Israeli soldier, State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Tuesday.

Israel has now concluded that it is ‘highly possible’ one of its soldiers killed Shireen Abu Akleh.

After months of denial, Israel has admitted that its military likely killed Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May. The killing, however, was unintentional and not deliberate, Israeli investigators insisted in a conclusion the journalist’s family denounced as a cover-up.

Well-known Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was reporting on an Israeli raid in a refugee camp in the town of Jenin when she was killed by a bullet that struck her in the head.

The network has decried Israel’s attempt to ‘evade criminal responsibility’ for the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.