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How Shireen Abu Akleh Died: IDF Offers Two Scenarios By Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Shireen Abu Akleh

Robert Spencer : Other reports suggest that not ā€œdozens,ā€ but ā€œhundredsā€ of shots were fired indiscriminately by toward the IDF vehicles by the Palestinians.

The second scenario covered by the probe involved a soldier who the military said used a gun with a telescopic sight to fire back at a gunman through a slit in the armored vehicle he was riding in.

The gunman fired bursts toward the IDF soldier several times and there is a possibility that the reporter was struck by the soldierā€™s fire toward [him],ā€ a statement from the IDF said.

Abu Akleh was about 200 meters from the vehicle at the time, according to the military.

The IDF said a ā€œprofessional ballistics testā€ could be decisive in determining how Abu Akleh was shot but noted that the Palestinian Authority has so far rebuffed Israeli requests to hold a joint investigation and examine the bullet. It said the Palestinians also rejected offers to be present and take part in the inquiry alongside an American representative.ā€¦

It is important to realize that only one side, that of the Palestinians, is blocking a thorough investigation. If they are so certain that the Israelis are responsible for Abu Aklehā€™s death, why are they so reluctant to produce the evidence? And why do they continue to refuse giving Israelis access to the bullet that killed her? Why, even the Palestiniansā€™ own forensics expert, Dr. Rayyan al-Ali, publicly admitted that at this point there was no way to be certain of who killed Abu Akleh.

Abu Akleh, who covered the Mideast conflict for more than 25 years, was killed by gunfire to her head while covering clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen during a military raid in Jenin. The death sparked international condemnation, though it is not yet clear who is responsible for it.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of ā€œexecutingā€ her and rejected Israeli calls for a joint investigation to determine responsibility. Israeli officials meanwhile have declared that it is too soon to determine who fired the bullet that killed her. 

Mahmoud Abbas goes a step further in his accusation than others in the PA have done so far. He doesnā€™t just say that ā€œan Israeli soldier killed Abu Akleh.ā€ That may be true; at this point we cannot know, and wonā€™t until the bullet is produced and subjected to tests. Abbas introduces a suggestion of murder, by saying that Israel ā€œexecutedā€ her deliberately, which turns what was at most an accident into a war crime. Such a charge will lead, as Abbas knows, to more unhinged violence by Arabs against Jews in the West Bank, more denunciations and votes condemning Israel as guilty of war crimes at the U.N., more social media campaigns against the ā€œZionist killersā€ who are trying to prevent journalists from covering their ā€œatrocitiesā€ in the ā€œoccupied West Bankā€ by murdering them.

Her casket was brought to Jerusalem from Ramallah Thursday, following what was described as a full state memorial at Abbasā€™s Ramallah compound, with officials, foreign diplomats and a long stream of mourners present.

Shireen Abu Akleh is being turned into a Palestinian martyr, a saint, a veritable Joan of Arc, beginning with the full state memorial service in Ramallah, with all sorts of high officials and foreign dignitaries present to pay homage to this victim of Israeli state terror. To make sure even greater crowds were mobilized, her casket was brought to Jerusalem, where many more thousands gathered, the international media were there to record the event, and Abu Akleh entered the pantheon of Palestinian martyrs.

An initial autopsy of Abu Aklehā€™s body by Palestinian coroners found that it was not possible to tell whether she was killed by Israeli or Palestinian gunfire.

That it was ā€œnot possible to tell whose gunfire killed herā€ was the one truthful admission from the Palestinian side. It came not from Mahmoud Abbas or any other P.A. official, but from the senior Palestinian coroner, Dr. Rayaan Al-Ali, who dared to speak the truth ā€“ ā€œat this point we just canā€™t tell.ā€ Whether he will be punished ā€“ possibly demoted ā€” for admitting this remains to be seen.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Thursday that the PA was hindering efforts to investigate the incident.

The Qatari-owned Al Jazeera has accused Israel of deliberately killing her and vowed to take legal action. Reporters who were with her said there were no Palestinian gunmen in the area.ā€¦

There were ā€œno Palestinian gunmen in the area,ā€ just as there were no Israeli soldiers in the immediate area. Both the gunmen and the soldiers were trading gunfire some 200 meters distant from where Abu Akleh was standing. Abu Akleh was also about 200 meters from the Israeli armored vehicle at the time she was shot, according to the Israeli military.

Hereā€™s how the U.S. can help to arrive at the truth, assuming the Bidenites care about that. Antony Blinken can call publicly for an investigation by forensics experts from three parties ā€“ Israel, the P.A. , and the United States ā€“ into the death of Shireen Abu Akleh. Blinken should insist that those experts ā€œmust be allowed to study, and subject to ballistics tests, the fatal bulletā€ that ā€œI regret to say, so far the Palestinian Authority has refused to produce.ā€ And ā€œthose experts must also be provided with the helmet the journalist was wearing when she was shot.

ā€œThere can be no certainty, and no resolution, until such an investigation is allowed. We earnestly call on the Palestinian Authority to release that bullet for study. So far the Palestinian Authority has rebuffed Israeli requests to hold a joint investigation and to examine the bullet, even with an American representative present. We trust that the P.A., in the interests of arriving at the truth, will reconsider their current refusal to engage in such an investigation.ā€œ

That should be enough pressure on the P.A. to decide to cooperate. After all, it doesnā€™t want to appear to be hiding something essential to the investigation ā€“ that bullet ā€” nor does it want, at this point, to antagonize the Biden Administration, on which it is relying for desperately needed financial aid.

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