Al-Jazeera journalist fatally shot while covering raids in West Bank, outlet says

An Al-Jazeera journalist was fatally shot Wednesday while covering Israeli raids in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the outlet reported.

The outlet, citing the Palestinian health ministry, reported that Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot by Israeli security forces.

The Israeli Defense Forces said on Twitter that it and Israeli security forces “conducted counterterrorism activity to apprehend terrorist suspects in the Jenin Refugee Camp” and came under fire.

The IDF said Palestinian gunmen opened fire and Israeli soldiers returned fire. It said it was investigating “and looking into the possibility that journalists were hit by the Palestinian gunmen.”

Israel has carried out near-daily raids in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks amid a series of deadly attacks inside Israel, many of them carried out by Palestinians from in and around Jenin.