Israeli forces martyr Al Jazeera female reporter

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WEST BANK: A female Al Jazeera TV reporter has been martyred in a shootout with Israeli forces in the West Bank.

Al Jazeera TV reporter Shirin Abu Aqila, from Palestine, was covering raids by Israeli forces in Jenin.

According to the report, the journalist was rushed to the hospital after being shot, but her life could not be saved, and doctors confirmed his death.

An Al Jazeera spokesman said the circumstances of the journalist’s death were not yet clear, but video of the incident showed that Shirin Abu Aqila had been shot in the head.

“It’s a very difficult time for the journalists who were working with her there,” he said.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. The health ministry said another Palestinian journalist had been shot dead. However, Ali Samoudi, who works for the Jerusalem-based Al-Quds newspaper, was in stable condition.

Last month, Israeli army martyred five Palestinians in occupied West Bank.

According to foreign media, five Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were martyred by the barbarism of the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank.

Media reports said that three Palestinians were martyred in a brutal operation by Israeli forces on Wednesday, while two Palestinians were martyred by Israeli troops on Thursday morning.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has confirmed the martyrdom of five people in Israeli military operations.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that a Palestinian civilian was martyred in clashes with the Israeli army near Ramallah on Wednesday, while the Israeli army also carried out several raids.

Earlier, three Palestinians were martyred by Israeli forces in two separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Ammar Shafiq Abu Afifa was killed by “Israeli occupation forces shooting at him near the town of Beit Fajar”, the ministry said late in the afternoon.

The Israeli army did not immediately comment when asked by media.

Afifa was a resident of the Al-Aroub refugee camp north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Separately, Israeli forces martyred two Palestinians before dawn on Tuesday after coming under fire during an arrest raid in the northern West Bank, Israeli border police and Palestinian health authorities said.

Israeli border police said officers and undercover police entered the Jenin refugee camp to arrest a suspect “wanted for terrorist activity.”