This Sunday, the Zionist army is preparing to declare responsibility for the murder of Palestinian journalist and journalist Shireen Abu Aqla, and expresses regret for what happened to her, if it is proven that she was killed. slow down
This was provided in statements made by the Israeli army spokesman to army radio after the delivery of the bullet that killed Shirin Abu Aqilah by the Palestinian Authority to the United States.
In a statement to Army Radio, the spokesman of the Israeli army said: “The Israelis will investigate the bullet that killed Shirin Abu Aqla in the presence of the American representative, and if we kill him, we will take responsibility and regret it.”
Yesterday, Saturday, Akram Al-Khatib, the Attorney General of Palestine, announced that the bullet that killed Shireen Abukaleh, a reporter for the Qatari channel (Al-Jazeera), has been handed over to the US government.
Al-Khatib said the American side would conduct a separate criminal investigation into the bullet that killed Abu Aqilah. Noting that experts were brought from America especially for this purpose.
According to al-Khatib, this examination will be conducted at the American Embassy in Jerusalem.
According to Xinhua, he added that the Palestinian Authority has received “guarantees” that the bullet will not be handed over to Israel and will be returned to Israel after the test is completed.
For its part, an Israeli security official said that the Palestinian Authority had handed over the bullet to American coordinator General Mike Penzel for ballistics examination.
Israel Public Radio quoted the official, whose name or position was not mentioned, as saying that the delivery of the bullets was made in order to conduct an American investigation to determine the source of the shooting that killed Abu Aqilah.
This radio also quoted American officials as saying that the interest of the White House and the US State Department in Abu Aqla’s case is due to political pressure from the international community, members of Congress and the Senate to end the investigation into Abu Aqla’s condition. Death.
The sources said the US government is interested in concluding the investigation before US President Joe Biden’s visit to the region on July 13.
The Palestinian Authority has previously conducted a separate investigation into the killing of Abu Aqila and has rejected a joint investigation with Israel to prevent any fraud on its part.
Abu Aqli, 51, who was born in Jerusalem, was shot in the head on June 11 while covering the Israeli army’s invasion of the Jenin camp in the northern West Bank, in an incident that shocked Palestinians, Arabs and the international community. got involved condemn
On May 26, al-Khatib announced that the results of the Palestinian preliminary investigation concluded that the bullet that killed Abu Aqilah was intentionally fired from an Israeli sniper weapon.
On June 9, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry announced that Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki met with International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan in The Hague and handed over the results of the Palestinian investigation into the Abu Aqila case. .
Source: Lebanon Debate
