According to the chief prosecutor of the Palestinian Authority, Akram al Khatib, Shireen Abu Akleh “was targeted for assassination” after receiving a 5.56mm caliber bullet fired from a Ruger M40an American precision rifle, according to the report he presented at a press conference in Ramallah.
The Palestinian-American journalist was wearing a bulletproof vest with “press” written on it and a hard hat when was covering an Israeli military operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
Another journalist was injured. And another three bullets hit a tree that was close to them, said Al Jatib, who stated that the five projectiles came from the same rifle.
According to the Palestinian prosecutor, an Israeli forces jeep was 200 meters from the journalists Y the bullets were launched at a distance of about 170-180 meters.
“The footprints on the tree are concentrated at a height of 127 to 178 cm, which indicates that the shooter was looking for the upper parts of the bodies with the aim of killing,” he said.
“The set of these facts: the type of projectile, the weapon, the distance, the fact that there was no obstacle to the view and that she was wearing a vest that said ‘press’, leads us to conclude that Abu Akleh was of a murder,” the prosecutor said. “The only source of the shooting was the Israeli occupation forces,” he added.
The new Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hussein al Sheikh, announced that he had forwarded the investigation report to US authorities.
According to a preliminary investigation by Israel, it is impossible to determine at this time the origin of the shot that killed the Al Jazeera journalist.
Israel rejected calls for an international investigationarguing the “seriousness” of its internal judicial procedures, while the Palestinian Authority refused to collaborate in the Israeli investigation.
The Palestinian Authority of Mahmud Abas and the Qatari chain Al Jazeera directly accuse Israel of having killed the journalist in Jenin, a bastion of the Palestinian armed factions.
Source: Ambito
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