The Boston Globe · Boston, Massachusetts · 6 September 2022
CP-2022-036
Israel: Soldier likely shot journalist
By Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said Monday that there was a ‘high possibility’ that one of its soldiers had mistakenly shot dead Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian-American journalist killed in May while covering a raid in the occupied West Bank… The military said it would not open a criminal investigation… Abu Akleh’s family said the findings were an attempt to avoid accountability… Earlier Israeli statements had suggested she might have been killed by Palestinian gunfire…”
Context added by this archive
Four months from “might have been killed by Palestinian gunfire” to “high possibility” and no criminal case. Both ends of that sentence are in this archive.
Cite this clipping
"Israel: Soldier likely shot journalist," The Boston Globe, 6 September 2022, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-036. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-036
More from The Boston Globe
- ON WAR-TRODDEN FIELDSThe Boston Globe · 27 December 1914
- Palestine and Its Problems: Keeping Jews and Arabs ApartThe Boston Globe · 9 August 1935
- 7 Syrians Killed in Rioting Over Palestine PartitionThe Boston Globe · 1 December 1947
- Jaffa Is a Dead CityThe Boston Globe · 14 May 1948
- Palestinian Arabs Ready to Live With Jewish “Cousins”The Boston Globe · 2 October 1948
- On UN resolution branding Zionism as racistThe Boston Globe · 17 November 1975
- 27 more from this paper in the full text →
More from the 2020s
- Egypt pushes for calm after flare-up in Gaza hostilitiesCitizens’ Voice · 3 January 2022
- Lawmakers want probe of death on West BankWisconsin State Journal · 1 February 2022
- 5 killed in mass shooting in Israel, officials sayRocky Mount Telegram · 30 March 2022
- Israeli police arrest relatives of Palestinian shooterDaily Tribune News · 31 March 2022
- Israel tightens security after deadliest attack in 8 yearsThe Boston Globe · 31 March 2022
- Palestinians, Israeli police clash at major holy site in JerusalemPortland Press Herald · 16 April 2022
- All 202 clippings from the 2020s →
In these collections
Last updated 2 November 2026
This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1724 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.
The clipping belongs to the newspaper that printed it, or to the news agency that supplied the copy. It is reproduced here for research, criticism and commentary. A city here is where the newspaper was published, not where the story came from, and on most records it was taken from the masthead.
Something wrong here, or something you know about this clipping? The archive is still being built and corrections are wanted: maria@rozumstudio.com, quoting CP-2022-036.
Everything printed in 2022 · Printed on this day · See it in the archive reel · Full text of every clipping · Dataset