A thousand days of Israeli unpunished, there is still no justice for Shireen Abu Akleh | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
Al Jazeere Shireen Abu Akleh veteran correspondent was killed 1,000 days ago, while covering Israeli raid at the Jenin refugee camp on the occupied West Coast on May 11, 2022.
She wore a helmet and a clearly marked printing vest when she was killed in what the media network of Al Jazeera condemned as a “cold -blooded assassination.”
Newspaper agencies, groups for rights and united nations conducted investigations into her murder and concluded that Abu Akleh Akleh were killed Israeli troops – probably intentionally -.
The murder of Shireen
The name of the household in the Arabic language world, Abu Akleh was a Palestinian-American journalist who covered the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory for 25 years.
On the day she was killed, she was with several colleagues in a safe area away from the conflict and crossfire, although it was a convoy of the Israeli army about 200 meters (660 feet).
The shooting was caught on the video and it showed Abu Akleh falling to the ground, motionless. Her colleagues who tried to help her were shot.
Her death shocked the world and focused the international light on the Israeli killings of Palestinian journalists.
According to the Journalist Protection Committee (CPJ), Israel failed to consider any of his soldiers responsible for the murder of 20 Palestinian journalists over 22 years before Abu Akleh’s death.
Ever since the Israeli war against Gaza began on October 7, 2023, CPJ has found that Israel has killed 159 Palestinian journalists.
Despite the increasing evidence that Abu Akleh was directly targeted, it is little political will to conduct a criminal investigation into Israel, the United States or in international courts.
Here’s all you need to know about the pursuit of justice for Abu Akleh.
What did Israel say?
Israel initially tried to refuse to blame for the incident and suggested that Palestinian fighters had killed a journalist.
However, he eventually went to the claim and admitted that his troops were responsible for her death, saying that it was a “accident”.
A week later, the Israeli army said that would not investigate the incident Fear that the treatment of their soldiers will lead to a controversy in Israeli society, according to Israeli reports.
A year later, the spokesman of the Israeli army Daniel Hagari said The army was “deeply sorry” for death Abu Akleh, repeating that there was no intention of initiating a criminal proceedings against soldiers believed to be behind the murder.
The United States gave up the Israeli criminal investigation after the apology of Israel.
What did they say now?
It was inconsistentat least
Immediately after the death of Abu Akleh, the administration of the then President, Joe Biden, said the perpetrators should be “prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law.”
He changed his melody after Israel admitted that his soldiers were killed in Abu Akleh and rejected calls for a criminal investigation, claiming that the shooting was “accident” – and gave up the request for Israel to investigate the perpetrators in September 2022.
Two months later, US Federal Investigation Office (FBI) opened a probe This was welcomed by groups of law and the Arab civilian society in the United States, but Israel allegedly did not cooperate with the investigation.
Did they research now?
Palestinian administration (Pa), a control body with a limited self -government on the occupied west coast, Handed the bullet killing Abu Akleh on forensic experts.
So he said that he did not want Israel involved in analysis for fear that Israeli authorities would do anything to protect their troops from responsibility.
At that time, Israel still claimed that perhaps Palestinian armed groups accidentally killed Abu Akleh.
But two days after receiving a bullet, the then US Secretary of State Antony Blinken He said the analysis was “unconvincing” because the bullet was severely damaged.
Who else has published investigations?
Several major newspaper organizations and outlets of open code have spent their probes.
In May 2022, CNN said he had gained new evidence – two videos – which suggests that Abu Aqleh was shot in a targeted attack by Israeli forces.
AND a joint investigation The Palestinian Group for Legal Rights of Al-Haq and forensic architecture, a group based in the UK, also undertaken to specialize in open code and architecture technique.
Their discoveries were published in September 2022 and found that Abu Akleh was intentionally killed.
Near, Documentary film Al JazeeraThe murder of Shireen Abu Akleh was announced in December 2022 and doubted the initial claims of Israel that it was killed by Palestinian shooting or crossfire.
Did Icc do something?
In December 2022, Al Jazeera Media Network submitted a request For the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open the case against Israel for the murder of Abu Akleh.
The Abu Akleh family submitted a similar request to the Court in September of that year, supported the Palestinian Press Union.
ICC has not yet revealed whether to open a case for justice for Abu Akleh.
What about the UN?
On October 16, 2023, the International Investigation Commission of the United Nations on the occupied Palestinian territory concluded that the Israeli forces used a “deadly force without justification” in aiming at Abu Akleh.
He also said that there were reasonable reasons that the Duvdevani unit of Israeli security forces did.
The Commission based its discoveries on eight testimonials of witnesses and an overview of the open code information, as well as investigations conducted by newspapers, including Al Jazeera, CNN, Washington Post and New York Times.
Al Jazeera has urged them to be given an ICC to help in his criminal investigation of the incident.
