Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh killed covering Israel Defense Forces raid in West Bank
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Jerusalem — A journalist for Al Jazeera was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early Wednesday. The broadcaster and a reporter who was wounded in the incident blamed Israeli forces, while Israel said there was evidence the two were hit by Palestinian gunfire. Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known Palestinian female reporter for the broadcaster's Arabic language channel, was shot and died soon afterward. The U.S. Embassy in Israel was cited by many news outlets as saying that Akleh held dual U.S.-Palestinian nationality, and U.S. Ambassador Thomas Nides referred to her in a tweet as an "American and Palestinian journalist."
Nides called for "a thorough investigation into the circumstances of her death and the injury of at least one other journalist today in Jenin."
Ali Samoudi, another Palestinian journalist, was hospitalized in stable condition after being shot in the back during the same raid.
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