Shireen Abu Akleh: Palestinians to let US study bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist

The Al Jazeera journalist was killed whereas overlaying an Israeli army raid within the West Financial institution metropolis of Jenin on Could 11. The Palestinian Authority has refused handy over the bullet to Israel, saying they might not belief the Israelis to conduct an neutral investigation.

“We is not going to hand over the bullet that killed Abu Akleh to the occupation, and we now have agreed that the People will conduct a forensic examination of the bullet,” Khatib informed journalists.

The bullet might be examined on the US Embassy in Jerusalem, Khatib informed CNN. The Palestinians have acquired “ensures” from the US the bullet “wouldn’t be delivered to Israel,” he stated.

The US Embassy didn’t instantly reply to a CNN request for remark. The Israeli Protection Forces stated it didn’t but have a public remark.

A forensic investigation of the bullet may doubtlessly enable for an official willpower of who killed Abu Akleh.

The Israeli army says it’s not clear who fired the deadly shot. In a preliminary inquiry, the military stated there was a chance Abu Akleh was hit both by indiscriminate Palestinian gunfire, or by an Israeli sniper positioned about 200 meters (about 656 toes) away in an alternate of fireplace with Palestinian gunmen — although neither Israel nor anybody else has supplied proof exhibiting armed Palestinians inside a transparent line of fireplace from Abu Akleh.

The Palestinian Authority says there have been no militants within the space and an Israeli soldier purposefully focused her.

Al Jazeera has decried her dying as “a blatant homicide” by Israeli forces.

At the very least 5 journalistic investigations, together with one by CNN, have all instructed the deadly shot got here from a place the place Israeli troops had been identified to have been. Not one of the investigations have discovered any proof of Palestinian militants close to Abu Akleh when she was shot.

Abu Akleh lined the Israeli-Palestinian battle for 20 years, and was beloved throughout the area for her fearless reporting. She was given a state funeral on the Palestinian presidential headquarters in Ramallah.

Palestinians — together with journalists, human rights activists and different leaders — throughout the globe proceed to demand accountability for her killing.