Shirin Abu Aqleh Iconic Palestinian journalist shot and killed in jenin.

Sky world news /Shirin Abu Aqleh Iconic Palestinian journalist shot and killed in jenin.

Al-Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli operation in West Cisjordanie The circumstances of his death remain to be clarified but the Qatari channel considers that it is "obviously a murder in violation of international laws and standards".

Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the most famous of the Arab channel Al-Jazeera, was killed on the morning of Wednesday May 11 by a shooting from the "Israel  army", according to witnesses and Palestinian officials, while it covered clashes in the Jenin area of ​​the occupied West Bank.

The Al-Jazeera correspondent was "murdered in cold blood by the Israeli army", the channel for which she worked in a statement also claimed, "which is clearly a murder, in violation of laws and norms international".

Dressed in a bulletproof vest with press logo.

Qatar's Deputy Foreign Minister later said Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israel forces with a bullet to the face while she was wearing a 'press' jacket and helmet.

"Shireen Abu Akleh was covering their attack in the Jenin refugee camp.

According to one of the journalist's colleagues, videos of the incident show Shireen Abu Akleh being shot in the head. In tears, this Al-Jazeera reporter added that she was a "highly respected journalist", who has worked for the channel since the start of the second Palestinian intifada in 2000.

An ongoing IDF investigation For its part, the Israeli army reacted on Twitter and claimed that its soldiers had responded to "massive fire" from dozens of armed Palestinian men.

"Tsahal is investigating the event and studying the possibility that journalists were hit by Palestinian gunmen," the Israeli army said.

Since March 22, Israel has been the target of a series of attacks that have killed at least 18 people.

Two of his attacks were perpetrated by Israeli Arabs, and four of them by Palestinians, including three young people from Jenin, where the Israeli army has stepped up operations in recent weeks.

In addition, the death of Shireen Abu Akleh comes almost a year to the day after the destruction of the Jalaa tower, where the offices of the Qatari channel Al-Jazeera were located, in the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli airstrike had demolished the building in the midst of a war between the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and the Jewish state.