Live Desk: A journalist has been shot and killed and one other injured whereas protecting an Israeli raid within the occupied West Financial institution, the Palestinian well being ministry has stated. It’s stated that Palestinian reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was working for Al-Jazeera’s Arabic language channel, was shot within the city of Jenin early on Wednesday and died quickly afterward.

One other Palestinian journalist from the Jerusalem-based Al-Quds newspaper was wounded however is in a secure situation.

Whereas the well being ministry stated the reporters had been hit by Israeli fireplace, the Israeli navy stated it’s “investigating” the occasion and is wanting into the likelihood the journalists had been hit by “the Palestinian gunmen”.

In a press release flashed on its channel, Al-Jazeera blamed Israel and referred to as on the worldwide group to “condemn and maintain the Israeli occupation forces accountable for intentionally focusing on and killing our colleague, Shireen Abu Akleh”.

Israel’s international minister, Yair Lapid, stated it had proposed to the Palestinian Authority a joint pathological investigation into the reporter’s dying.

“Journalists should be protected in battle zones and all of us have a duty to get to the reality,” he tweeted. In video footage of the incident, Ms Abu Akleh could be seen carrying a blue flak jacket clearly marked with the phrase ‘PRESS’.

Citing the Palestinian wholesome ministry and its personal journalists, Al Jazeera claims Ms Abu Akleh was hit by a reside bullet and rushed to hospital in essential situation, the place she later died.

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim instructed the broadcaster 51-year-old Ms Abu Akleh was a “very well-respected journalist” who had been working with the channel since 2000.

The Israeli navy stated its forces got here beneath assault with heavy gunfire and explosives whereas working in Jenin, and that they fired again.

Israel has carried out near-daily raids within the West Financial institution in latest weeks amid a collection of lethal assaults inside Israel, a lot of them carried out by Palestinians from in and round Jenin.

The city, and significantly its refugee camp, has lengthy been often known as a militant bastion.

Israel captured the West Financial institution in 1967, and the Palestinians need the territory to type the primary a part of their future state. Almost three million Palestinians reside within the territory beneath Israeli navy rule.

Israel has constructed greater than 130 settlements throughout the West Financial institution which might be dwelling to just about 500,000 Jewish settlers, who’ve full Israeli citizenship. Israelis have lengthy been essential of Al-Jazeera’s protection, however authorities typically enable its journalists to function freely.

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