The Billings Gazette · Billings, Montana · 5 July 2022
CP-2022-010
US: Israeli fire likely killed reporter; no final conclusion
Ellen Knickmeyer, Matthew Lee and Joseph Krauss, The Associated Press, Washington
Transcribed from the clipping
“WASHINGTON — U.S. officials said Monday that the bullet that killed veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was likely fired from an Israeli position. But they said it was too badly damaged to reach an absolute determination, and that there is ‘no reason to believe’ she was deliberately targeted… The U.S.
‘found no reason to believe that this was intentional but rather the result of tragic circumstances during an IDF-led military operation against factions of Palestinian Islamic Jihad,’ Price said.
He gave no further details on how it reached its conclusion… Israel says she was killed during a complex battle with Palestinian militants and that only a forensic analysis of the bullet could confirm whether it was fired by an Israeli soldier or a Palestinian militant.
It has strongly denied she was deliberately targeted… Rights groups say Israeli investigations of the shooting deaths of Palestinians often languish for months or years before being quietly closed and that soldiers are rarely held accountable. The Israeli rights group B’Tselem dismissed the U.S. announcement as a ‘whitewash.’”
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Two months on: likely Israeli fire, no reason to believe it was intentional, a bullet too damaged to be sure, and a rights group calling it a whitewash. All four on one page.
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"US: Israeli fire likely killed reporter; no final conclusion," The Billings Gazette, 5 July 2022, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-010. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-010
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