The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced today, Wednesday, the death of the 51-year-old journalist Shereen Abu Akleh, Al-Jazeera reporter in Palestine, as the Israeli occupation forces shot dead while she was covering the storming of Jenin camp.

The ministry also announced that her colleague, Ali Al-Samoudi, had been shot in the back, noting that his health condition was stable.

Local sources indicated that the occupation soldiers surrounded a house in Jenin camp amid armed clashes, and opened fire indiscriminately, which led to the registration of a number of serious injuries.

The official Palestinian news agency “Wafa” quoted the injured journalist Smoudi as saying that he was accompanied by Shereen Abu Akleh and a group of journalists in the vicinity of the schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) near Jenin camp, and everyone was wearing helmets and journalists’ uniforms.

He added: “The occupation forces targeted journalists directly,” which led to him being shot in the back, and the death of his colleague, Abu Akleh, after she was shot in the head.

Al-Samoudi added: “The place where the journalists were present was clear to the occupation soldiers, and there were no armed men or confrontations in that area, and the targeting was done deliberately.”

Shereen Nasri Abu Akleh, a journalist born in Jerusalem in 1971 working with the Al-Jazeera media network, originated from a well-known Christian family in Bethlehem. After graduation, she returned to Palestine and worked for several sites such as UNRWA, Voice of Palestine Radio, and Amman Channel, Moftah Foundation, Radio Monte Carlo, and later moved to work in 1997 with Al Jazeera TV channel.