US: Israeli Gunfire ‘Likely’ Killed Abu Akleh, Though Maybe ‘Unintentionally’

By Palestine Chronicle Employees

The US State Division stated on Monday that the evaluation of the bullet that killed Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh final Might “couldn’t attain a definitive conclusion relating to [its] origin,” Israeli media reported.

Within the assertion, US State Division Spokesman Ned Worth stated that “ballistic consultants decided the bullet was badly broken, which prevented a transparent conclusion.”

Disgusting. The US has absolutely partnered with Israel to cowl up the latter’s accountability for the willful killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, even justifying it by citing that it adopted a sequence of “terror” assaults in Israel. https://t.co/Dh2iI6r6Ef

— Maureen Murphy (@maureenclarem) July 4, 2022

Worth added that American examiners reached the conclusion that “gunfire from IDF positions was possible liable for the demise of Shireen Abu Akleh,” however that the US Safety Coordinator “discovered no cause to imagine that this was intentional however moderately the results of tragic circumstances”.

Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary-general of the PLO Government Committee, stated that Palestine would transfer to take the case to the Worldwide Felony Court docket.

The US report contradicts the conclusions reached by at the least 5 main worldwide media retailers, which printed detailed investigative reviews, all holding Israel accountable for Abu Akleh’s assassination.

US concludes that the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was carried out by Israeli pressure however “the results of tragic circumstances throughout an IDF-led army operation which adopted a sequence of terrorist assaults in Israel.”

Justification for homicide of their very own citizen pic.twitter.com/NOUO2xhV7d

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Furthermore, the UN Human Rights Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner said on June 24 that Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces. 

Spokesperson for the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Ravina Shamdasani stated in a press launch that “the pictures that killed Abu Akleh and injured her colleague, Ali Sammoudi got here from Israeli Safety Forces and never from indiscriminate firing by armed Palestinians, as initially claimed by Israeli authorities.”

(The Palestine Chronicle)