CNN: The Palestinian journalist was first intentionally shot by Israeli soldiers
An CNN investigation, based on eyewitnesses and videos, claims to have revealed the exact shots from which a journalist from Al Jazeera in Jenin was killed two weeks ago.
The investigation includes analyzes by experts according to which IDF soldiers deliberately fired at the journalists
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24/05/2022
Tuesday, 24 May 2022, 21:20 Updated: 22:17
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"They fired directly at journalists," an eyewitness to the death of Al-Jazeera journalist Sheerin Abu-Akla in an exchange of gunfire in Jenin on May 11 told CNN, the news network reported tonight (Tuesday).
According to the report, two weeks ago CNN found a new video that contains, according to reporter Katie Polglace
, convincing enough evidence that the journalist was deliberately shot by the IDF. The network also spoke with eyewitnesses who said the shooting was intentional.
After the IDF besieged a house where gunmen were fortified, Abu Akala, a well-known reporter who had been active for 20 years, died of her wounds after being shot in the head.
Journalist Ali Samudi, who was for years a reporter and photographer for the British news agency Reuters, was also injured in the incident.
Shata Hanisha, an eyewitness, told CNN that the IDF shot her and Abu-Akla on purpose. "They want to kill us.
That's why they shot ... they knew we were journalists. "" It felt intentional,
In a CNN investigation, it was alleged that from a video documenting the incident and from the testimony of eyewitnesses, it is possible to determine exactly what the shots were that killed the journalist.
This is from an analysis of the distance between the source of the shooting and the place where she was killed.
According to an expert, this distance was 170-200 meters.
It was further alleged that the tree next to which Abu-Akla fell was critical evidence because the black bullets (now marked with evidence) that hit him indicate that the nature of the shooting was intentional.
According to analyst Chris Cobes Smith, the fact that there is such a close cluster of three to four shots proves that the shooting was at a target, and not accidental.
The investigation also claims that from the military truck seen in a video obtained by CNN, and also in an IDF video, there were IDF soldiers with a sniper firing at the journalists.
According to CNN, the truck was about 200 meters from the reporters, from which the deadly shots were fired.
Contrary to the IDF's claim that the shooting may have been carried out by a Palestinian, the niche eyewitness told the network that it was impossible. "I do not agree with the claim that there was a Palestinian there with a weapon.
"As a journalist and as a human being, I do not endanger myself in this way unnecessarily," the same day
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