B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, stated on Wednesday that the Israeli army’s account of the killing of Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh is “incorrect.”
Kareem Jubran, a spokesman for B’Tselem, told Anadolu Agency that his organization conducted extensive research on the video released by the Israeli army, which revealed that the angel of shooting allegedly by a Palestinian gunman, as depicted in the video, does not correspond to the location where Abu Akleh was shot and killed.
B’Tselem remarked in an extensive thread on Twitter, “Documentation of Palestinian gunfire distributed by Israeli military cannot be the gunfire that killed Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh,
This morning, B’Tselem’s field researcher in Jenin documented the exact locations in which the Palestinian gunman depicted in a video distributed by the Israeli army, fired, as well as the exact location in which Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed. pic.twitter.com/6VbEJJuF7z
— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) May 11, 2022
Documentation of Palestinian gunfire distributed by Israeli military cannot be the gunfire that killed Journalist Shireen Abu Aklehhttps://t.co/7v9Kk4Ue62
— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) May 11, 2022
B’Tselem will conduct another comprehensive investigation, Jubran continued
Palestinians, according to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, are likely to be behind her murder.
Covering up Bennett claimed in a statement that “According to the information in our hands right now, there is a good chance that armed Palestinians, firing wildly, brought about the tragic death of the journalist,”
Today, Wednesday, May 11th, Abu Akleh, 51, was killed while documenting an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, another journalist, Ali Al-Samoudi, was shot in the back.
Adding insult to injury the Israeli forces interrupted the journalist vigil as they went to the Abu Akla family home and demanded the Palestinian flag hung outside the house be lowered, distributing the family in their time of grief
Israel police went to Shireen Abu Akleh’s home to ask they take down Palestinian flags hung outside. Yes, that’s right. https://t.co/fwNWxzo5x8
— Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין (@MairavZ) May 11, 2022
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