In a rare example of unity council calls for an immediate, impartial investigation into journalist’s death

The UN security council has unanimously condemned the killing of the Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while covering an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank, diplomats said.

In a rare, unanimous statement the security council also called for “an immediate, thorough, transparent and impartial investigation into her killing”.

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