Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Archive photoMOSCOW, May 17. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during a meeting with Palestinian Minister for Civil Affairs, Secretary of the PLO Executive Committee, member of the Fatah Central Committee Hussein Sheikh, expressed condolences over the death of Palestinian journalist Shirin Abu Akla and supported the PLO leadership's demand for an investigation into her murder. Earlier, an Arab satellite TV channel broadcasting from Qatar reported that Al Jazeera journalist Abu Akle was fatally shot in the head while covering an Israeli military raid on a Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin in the West Bank of Jordan. Her death was confirmed by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Israel put forward the version that the reporter could have come under fire from Palestinian militants, but a colleague who was with her at the time of her death said that there were no shootings at their location. .jpg» />Bennett linked the death of Al-Jazeera journalist with the actions of the Palestinians»Lavrov expressed sincere condolences in connection with the tragic death of Palestinian journalist Shirin Abu Akle on May 11 and supported the demand of the PLO leadership for a thorough and objective investigation into her murder,» the statement reads. message on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Israel offered Palestine a joint investigation into the death of a journalist. On Friday morning, the Israeli army press office said that preliminary investigations could not definitively determine the source of the shooting in the West Bank that killed Al-Jazeera journalist Abu Akle.
UN calls for investigation into murder of Al Jazeera journalist
