The Israeli military said on Friday it was unable to determine, after preliminary investigation, who shot Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed in the line of duty during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank.
“The conclusion of the preliminary report is that it is not possible to determine the source of the bullet that shot and killed the journalist,” the army said in a statement. Israeli soldier.
“The investigation shows two possibilities as to the source of the bullet that killed him,” says Metin.
The first is that the shot came from “mass shooting of armed Palestinians.” [contra soldados israelenses]in hundreds of bullets fired from different places”.
“The other option is for one of the soldiers to shoot a few bullets from a vehicle… at a terrorist targeting his vehicle, during the conflict,” the text states.
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had suggested that Shireen was “probably” killed by fire from Palestinian fighters. A few hours later, defense secretary Benny Gantz said the military was “not sure how he was killed”.
“It may have been a Palestinian who shot him (…) The bullet may have come from our side, we are investigating,” he said.
“We need forensic evidence” from Palestinians, including the bullet that killed the journalist, to conduct a “full” investigation, the minister said.
According to a security source, Israel requested the lead from the Palestinians so that “scientific research can be conducted to find the source of the fire” and offered Palestinian and American officials “to be present” during the analysis.
So far, Israelis and Palestinians continue to make mutual accusations over the death of the famous 51-year-old journalist working for the Al Jazeera network.
The Christian Palestinian journalist, who is also an American citizen, was shot in the head while watching the Israeli operation against the Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. He was wearing a bulletproof vest. . with the word “PRESS” on the back and a helmet.
Clashes also broke out in the same refugee camp where the journalist was killed. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 13 Palestinians were shot in a new operation by the Israeli army.
explosion of violence
In parallel, violence erupted at a hospital in Jerusalem on Friday as Israeli police dispersed the crowd waving Palestinian flags at the journalist’s coffin, according to AFP journalists at the scene.
Footage broadcast on local television showed the reporter’s coffin nearly falling to the ground as Israeli police dispersed the crowd amid a sea of Palestinian flags.
Israeli forces entered the Saint Joseph’s Hospital in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian area of the city occupied and annexed by Israel.
According to a video released by the police, an Israeli police officer told the crowd by megaphone, “If they don’t stop the nationalist chants, we will have to disperse them by force and prevent the funeral from being held.”
According to Israeli forces, “hundreds of people” were gathered at the hospital and “forced to use a dispersal vehicle” by throwing stones at the agents.
“Brutal Israeli special forces, Shireen Abu Akleh’s St.
Shireen Abu Akleh’s coffin was finally transported to the Old City, where a mass was celebrated in her honor at a church on Friday. The nearby streets were packed with thousands of Palestinians bidding their final farewells to the journalist. The burial will then take place next to his family, in a cemetery near the Old City.
The death of this reporter, an icon of Palestinian journalism, provoked a wave of turmoil in the Palestinian Territories, in the Arab world, where his reports have been followed for more than two decades, in Europe and the United States.
source: Noticias
