RAAM cancels press conference: "Condemns the death of the journalist, to establish an international commission of inquiry"

Ra'am and the Shura Council have not yet decided how to vote on the bill to dissolve the 24th Knesset, which will go up in a preliminary reading in the Knesset today. : "Journalists Must Be Protected"

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11/05/2022

Wednesday, 11 May 2022, 09:10 Updated: 09:22

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Opening of the Knesset Session (Yotam Ronen)

RAAM and the Shura Council have not yet decided how to vote on the bill to dissolve the 24th Knesset, which will go up in a preliminary reading in the Knesset today (Wednesday). RAAM planned to announce its decision at a press conference, but following the death of a Palestinian journalist in Jenin Her decision in the announcement.

A statement from Ra'am said it condemned the killing of the journalist and demanded the immediate establishment of an international commission of inquiry into the circumstances of her death. "Journalists must be protected," she stressed.

This morning, al-Jazeera journalist Sheerin Abu Akla was shot dead during an exchange of gunfire between IDF and IDF forces in Jenin. The source of the shooting has not yet been determined, and the Qatari network is blaming the IDF.

The IDF, on the other hand, estimates that Abu Akla was killed by indiscriminate gunfire from Palestinian militants. They do not want a joint investigation.

"If the bullets and the victim are not present, it will be difficult for us to know what happened there," he said.

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Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas condemned the killing of the journalist and said that Ramallah blames the government in Israel. Hussein a-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian Authority official, also accused Israel of killing the journalist and called it a crime of occupation. Israel because it was done maliciously. "The assassination of an Al-Jazeera reporter is a crime that is added to Israel's chain of crimes against the Palestinian media.

"This deliberate assassination is a crime for which the occupation must be accountable to international sources," Hamas said.

The proposal to dissolve the Knesset was included by the opposition at the beginning of the week on the agenda of the plenum, but the Likud has not yet finally decided whether to hold it in practice.

The party is waiting for the final decision of the RAAM party, which convened together with the Shura council last night in Kafr Qassem.

If not, he argued, we would withdraw the proposal and hold a vote on it at another time.

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