The US continues to exert pressure on Israel following the Shirin Abu Akla affair, and is now demanding a re-examination of the IDF's opening fire procedures.
The Deputy Spokesman of the State Department, Vedant Patel, said this evening (Tuesday) at the daily briefing that "we will continue to directly and closely pressure Israel at the highest levels, to review its policies and procedures on this issue to ensure that such a thing does not happen again in the future."
His words come after the IDF yesterday published the conclusions of a detailed investigation, the conclusion of which was that Abu Akala was apparently killed by fire accidentally fired by one of the IDF soldiers, who did not notice the journalist.
As I recall, Abu Akla stood close to the Palestinian militants.
The funeral of the Palestinian journalist Shirin Abu Aqla, in Jerusalem, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
The administration's announcement came after this morning (Tuesday) we reported that heavy American pressure on Israel to "take responsibility" in the case of the death of journalist Shirin Abu Aqla was behind the IDF investigation published yesterday (Monday). , the highest ranks demanded that the Israeli government "take responsibility".
Israeli officials admitted last night (Monday) that if Abu Aqla had not been an American citizen and a journalist, there would not have been such a detailed and thorough investigation as the IDF conducted. His is clearly the truth, which in fact even at this moment remains obscure.
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, photo: Mark Israel Salem
Acting Prime Minister Naftali Bennett responded: "The opening fire instructions for our soldiers will be determined by the IDF commanders, independent of any pressure - internal or external.
This is the truth: at any given moment there are Palestinian terrorists trying to murder Israelis.
not the other way around.
Our hand is not light on the trigger, but the moral order is to hit terrorists and thus save human lives.
As prime minister I gave full backing to our fighters, and I expect our friends in the world not to preach morality to us but to back us up in our war on terror."
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