The Palestinian Authority agreed today (Saturday) to hand over to the United States the bullet that they claimed killed Palestinian journalist Sheerin Abu Akala in May in the city of Jenin.
Palestinian Attorney General Akram Khatib told Al-Jazeera this evening that the Palestinian side agreed to a ballistic check to be carried out by the Americans in a shrapnel that killed journalist Sheerin Abu Akla, adding, "We will not hand over the ball to the Israeli side."
A senior Palestinian official told Israel today that "the Americans have more than once asked to receive the bullet in order to carry out an investigation, against the background of pressure exerted by Democratic senators in Congress on the administration to complete the investigation into the Abu Akala death."
The Shurat HaDin organization has filed a criminal complaint with the International Court of Justice in The Hague against Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and against the PA itself, regarding the killing of al-Jazeera journalist Sheerin Abu Akla in Jenin.
The organization claims that Abu Mazen and the PA are responsible for the killing of Abu Akla, and that they refuse to test the bullet that killed her on the understanding that this could reveal the involvement of the PLO's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in her death. It may lead to the imposition of responsibility on Abu Mazen personally, by virtue of being chairman of the PLO.
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