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Veteran Al Jazeera Correspondent Al Jazee Shirin Abu Akleh was killed 1000 days ago while covering Israeli raid into the refugee camp Jenin on the occupied West Bank on May 11, 2022.
She was dressed in a helmet and a clear vest for the press when she was killed in what the Al Jazeera media network condemned as a “cold -blooded murder.”
The news, rights groups and the United Nations have conducted investigations on her murder and concluded that Abu Akleh was killed – probably intentionally – by Israeli troops.
The killing of Shirine
The name of the household in Arabic, spoken of Arabic, Abu Akleh was the Palestinian-American journalist who covered the brutal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory for 25 years.
On the day she was killed, she was with several colleagues in a safe zone away from clashes and crossfire, although there was a convoy of the Israeli army about 200 meters (660 feet).
The shooting was caught on video and showed that Abu Akle had fallen to the ground, motionless. Her colleagues, who tried to come to her help.
Her death shocked the world and focused an international spotlight on Israeli killings of Palestinian journalists.
According to the Commission for Protection of Journalists (CPJ), Israel failed to execute any of its soldiers responsible for the murder of 20 Palestinian journalists in 22 years before Abu Akleh's death.
Since the war of Israel in Gaza, it begins on October 7, 2023, CPJ found that Israel killed 159 Palestinian journalists.
Despite the increasing evidence that Abu Aklech was directly directed, there is little political will to conduct a criminal investigation in Israel, the United States or in the International Courts.
Here's all you need to know about the search for justice for Abu Aklech.
What did Israel say?
Initially, Israel tried to deflect the blame for the incident and suggested that the Palestinian fighters had killed the journalist.
In the end, this eventually went with this request back and admitted that his troops were responsible for her death, saying it was an “incident”.
A week later the military in Israel said he would not investigate the incident For fear that the treatment of his soldiers as suspects would lead to a dispute within Israeli society, according to Israeli news reports.
A year later, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said The army was “deeply regrets” about death Abu Akleh, reiterating that he did not intend to initiate criminal proceedings against soldiers who are thought to be behind the murder.
The United States rejected their request for an Israeli criminal investigation after Israel's apology.
What did the US say?
It was inconsistentlyto say the least
Immediately after Abu's death, the administration of the then US President Joe Biden said the perpetrators should be “pursued to the greatest degree of law.”
He changed his tune after Israel admitted that his soldiers had killed Abu Akle and rejected calls for a criminal investigation, claiming that the shooting was an “incident” – and rejected Israel's demands to investigate the perpetrators in September 2022.
Two months later, The Federal Bureau of US Investigation (FBI) found a probe This was welcomed by rights and Arab civil society groups in the United States, but according to reports Israel did not cooperate with the investigation.
Do American investigate?
Palestinian Power (PA), a governing body with limited self -government of the occupied West Bank, handed over the bullet that killed Abu Aklech to forensic expertsS
Pa stated that he did not want Israel to participate in the analysis of fear that the Israeli authorities would do anything to protect their troops from accountability.
At that time, Israel still claims that perhaps the Palestinian armed groups accidentally killed Abu Akleh.
But two days after receiving the bullet, then US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken He said the analysis was “unconvincing” because the bullet was very damaged.
Who else is posting investigations?
Several main news organizations and open -code investigation teams have conducted their own probes.
In May 2022, CNN said he acquired new evidence – two videos – suggesting that Abu Akleh was shot dead in a purposeful attack by Israeli forces.
A Joint investigation It was also undertaken by the Palestinian Legal Rights Group al-Hak and a forensic architecture based in the UK, which specializes in open source analysis and architecture techniques.
Their findings were published in September 2022 and determined that Abu Akleh was killed intentionally.
In addition, Al Jazeera Front Lines DocumentaryThe murder of Shirin Abu Akleh was released in December 2022 and questioned Israel's initial claims that she had been killed by Palestinian shooting or by Crossfire.
Did ICC do anything?
In December 2022. Al Jazeera's media network filed a request For the International Criminal Court (ICC), to open a case against Israel for the murder of Abu Akleh.
Abu Akleh's family filed a similar request to the court in September of the same year, supported by the Palestinian Press Union.
The ICC has not yet revealed whether it will open a case for the pursuit of justice to Abu Akleh.
What about the UN?
On October 16, 2023, the International Commission for Investigation of the United Nations organization of the occupied Palestinian territory came to the conclusion that the Israeli forces had used “deadly force without reason” when referring to Abu Akleh.
He also stated that there were reasonable grounds that the Duvdan department of the Israeli security forces had done.
The Commission has set up its findings of eight evidence of witnesses and reviewing open source information, as well as investigations conducted by news publications, including AL JAZEERA, CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times.
Al Jazeera called for the findings to be given to the ICC to help with his criminal investigation into the incident.
