The Hebrew State rejects the fault of the Palestinians, who refused to participate in joint investigations on the death of the star reporter of Al-Jazira, on May 11, during an Israeli army operation In the West Bank.
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Exactly two weeks after his American-Palestinian reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in Jénine, in the West Bank, during an Israeli army operation, the Qatari chain al-Jazira announced, on May 26, that ‘She was going to seize the International Criminal Court for “War Crime”. One way to hope one day to make the truth around this brutal death, but also to maintain attention on the case.
After the shock and indignation of the first days, no international investigation was opened. The United States has just reminded the Israelis the importance of conducting an investigation. Only the Palestinian authority officially brought the first elements to try to understand what had happened this morning of May 11. After autopsy of the journalist’s body, hearing witnesses and expertise, she concluded that the star reporter of Al-Jazira was killed by a 5.56 mm ball at the head. “The only source of the shots came from the [Israeli] occupation forces in order to kill,” said Palestinian prosecutor Akram al-Khatib. This is also the conclusion to which the American channel CNN has reached the end of a survey published on May 24.
Immediately, Israeli officials made the army, the army discrediting investigations based on “biased testimonies”. They emanate from journalists and Palestinians on the spot that morning alongside Shireen Abu Akleh. “Any statement that Israeli defense forces have deliberately injured journalists or passive civilians is a shameless lie,” criticized the Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz, going so far as to accuse CNN’s investigation to “strengthen, Ultimately, terrorism “. He did not, in response, presented new specific evidence.
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The army said it questioned the troops present in Jénine on May 11 but for the moment, according to her, the elements united do not allow the opening of a criminal investigation. Israel rejects the fault of the Palestinians, who refused to participate in joint investigations. They estimated that the Hebrew state could not investigate objectively. “How Israel can blame the Palestinians because they refuse to cooperate with the occupying army when Israel himself has never cooperated with an international investigation!”, Offuses Ori Givati, of the Israeli NGO of Veterans Breaking The Silence, which recalls that the Hebrew state regularly blocks access to its territory to international investigators.
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