Yahya Sinwar on a condolence visit to Al Jazeera headquarters: "No account is taken of the occupation"

The Hamas leader in Gaza has appeared in public for the first time since tensions with Israel arose, following the attack on Elad.

"I'm not hiding," Sinwar said.

Regarding the reporter Sheerin Abu Akala who was killed in Jenin, Sinwar said: She was killed more than once - when she was injured, in attempts to prevent her funeral and by attacking the coffin.

Yifat Rosenberg

14/05/2022

Saturday, 14 May 2022, 18:38 Updated: 19:15

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In the video: The funeral of al-Jazeera reporter Shirin Abu Akla who was shot in Jenin (Photo: Reuters)

Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar arrived today (Saturday) for a condolence visit on the death of reporter Sheerin Abu Akala at the Al-Jazeera headquarters in Gaza.

This is his first public appearance since tensions arose between Hamas and Israel last week, following the attack in Elad.

"I'm not hiding and we do not account for the occupation," Sinwar said during the visit.

It will be recalled that after the attack and Sinwar's statements regarding the need to carry out attacks, there were demands in Israel to eliminate it.

During a visit, Sinwar said: "Whoever made the decision to bomb al-Jazeera's office, and whoever made the decision to break Giwara al-Badiri's hand in Sheikh Jarrah, is the one who made the decision to eliminate Sheerin Ibn Akla."

Sinwar added that "the martyr Abu Akala was assassinated more than once, when she was injured, then in the many attempts to prevent her funeral from taking place properly, and by attacking her coffin."

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Sheerin Abu Akla was killed on Thursday in Jenin, during an exchange of gunfire between IDF forces and gunmen.

According to the investigation presented yesterday by the commander of the Central Command and the commander of the commando brigade to Chief of Staff Kochavi, the journalist was killed by gunfire or stray gunfire by an IDF soldier.

The investigation raises two possibilities for the source of the shooting that hit the journalist.

According to the first, she was hit by Palestinian gunmen who aimed at IDF fighters. During the shooting, dozens of bullets were fired uncontrollably from weapons that were in "automatic" mode. One of them may have hit a journalist who was in the area.

"The Abu Akala martyrdom has been eliminated more than once."

Yahya Sinwar at Al Jazeera Headquarters, May 14, 2022 (Photo: Photos by surfers, use under section 27A of the Copyright Law)

During Abu Akala's funeral, Israeli soldiers confronted the participants in the funeral procession, a confrontation that provoked condemnation around the world, including the US administration and the European Union.

Today, Commissioner of Police Yaakov Shabtai ordered an investigation into the conduct of the police at the journalist

's funeral.

Sheerin Abu Aqla, and even coordinated the funeral arrangements with the family.

"On the other hand, there were hundreds of rioters who wanted to sabotage during the ceremony and harm the police," the police said.

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