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US presses Palestinians to hand over the bullet from which al-Jazeera journalist was killed - Walla! News

2022-07-02T10:03:55.332Z


The US administration wants to test the bullet and the guns used during the incident in Jenin, in which Sheerin Abu Akala was killed, in order to reach a breakthrough in the investigation before President Biden arrives in the area. Blinken called Abu Mazen and pressured him; The Palestinians signaled that they might agree to hand over the bullet


The United States presses the Palestinians to hand over the bullet from which al-Jazeera journalist was killed

The US administration wants to test the bullet and the guns used during the incident in Jenin, in which Sheerin Abu Akala was killed, in order to reach a breakthrough in the investigation before President Biden arrives in the area.

Blinken called Abu Mazen and pressured him;

The Palestinians signaled that they might agree to hand over the bullet

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02/07/2022

Saturday, 02 July 2022, 10:00 Updated: 12:57

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The Joe Biden administration presses the Palestinian Authority to hand over to the United States the bullet that hit the American-Palestinian journalist Sheerin Abu Akla to determine the source of the shooting from which she was killed during an IDF operation in Jenin on May 11, three officials told Walla! Senior Israelis and Americans.

why is it important

  • The White House and the U.S. State Department are under political pressure from members of Congress and senators to investigate the death of Sheerin Abu Akala.

    The administration is interested in reaching a breakthrough in the investigation ahead of President Biden's visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority on July 13.

The situation

  • Both Israel and the Palestinian Authority have conducted investigations into the death of Sheerin Abu Akala.

  • The IDF investigation determined that there was a possibility that an IDF soldier fired from a slit in the jeep at a suspect who was standing near Abu Akla, who caused her death unintentionally.

  • According to the IDF investigation, it is not possible to determine with certainty who shot Abu Akala without a ballistic examination of the bullet removed from her body in front of the rifles used by the soldiers during the incident.

  • The Palestinian Authority's investigation determined that it was IDF soldiers who killed Abu Akla. However, the evidence on which the Palestinian investigation was based was purely circumstantial.

The death investigation continues.

Abu Akala (Photo: Official Website, from Facebook)

More on Walla!

  • Biden greeted Lapid: "Looking forward to meeting you";

    The Prime Minister replied: "We are waiting for you in Israel, we will strengthen the alliance"

  • Al Jazeera: This is the bullet that killed the journalist in Jenin

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The bullet allegedly hit Abu Akala (Photo: screenshot, from Al Jazeera broadcasts)

  • The Palestinians refused to give the bullet removed from Abu Akala's body to Israel to perform a ballistic test against the rifles used by the soldiers.

    They claimed that they did not trust the Israeli investigation.

  • Last week, 24 Democratic senators sent a letter to President Biden demanding that the United States play a more active role in investigating Abu Akala's death.

  • Two weeks earlier, members of Congress had sent a letter to Secretary of State in Linken demanding that the FBI begin investigating the incident itself.

More on Walla!

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Sheerin Abu Akla was killed by IDF gunfire

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Behind the Scenes

  • For the past five weeks, the Biden administration has been pressuring the Palestinian Authority to hand over the bullet from which Abu Akla was killed to the United States so that American officials can carry out the ballistic test, senior Israeli and American officials said.

  • They said the Biden administration had suggested to the Palestinians and Israel that the US security coordinator, General Mike Penzel, would be in charge of the investigation and the ballistic inspection.

  • Two sources close to the matter said that the Palestinians rejected for several weeks all American requests to receive the bullet.

    The Palestinian refusal has created much frustration in the Biden administration.

  • In recent days, Palestinians have begun to change direction and signal that they will be willing to give the bullet to the Americans in order to complete the investigation into Abu Akala's death.

  • A senior US State Department official said on Thursday evening that US Secretary of State Tony Blinken had called on Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and stressed the importance of conducting a thorough, transparent and independent investigation into the circumstances of Abu Akala's death.

What they say

  • A spokesman for the US State Department said that "the US administration is in close contact with senior officials in Israel and the Palestinian Authority and encourages both sides to cooperate fully in investigating the circumstances of Sheerin Abu Akala's death, including in sharing forensic evidence."

  • Palestinian Minister Hussein al-Sheikh, who is in charge of contacts with the US administration regarding the affair, did not respond to three requests for comment on the matter.

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  • Jenin

  • Al Jazeera

  • Abu Mazen

  • Palestinians

  • IDF

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