Sep. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have determined that there are “high possibilities” that a bullet fired by one of its soldiers killed the journalist Shirín Abu Aklé, who died in May of a gunshot to the head while covering some clashes in Jenin (West Bank).
Until now, the Israeli authorities had been reluctant to acknowledge any responsibility in this incident and, in fact, initially pointed out as the main hypothesis that the journalist died as a victim of the Palestinians.
However, the internal investigation carried out by the Army has determined that, in the absence of knowing for sure who fired, “there is a high possibility that Shirin was accidentally hit by an IDF shot.”
He argues that the shots were directed against Palestinian “suspects” and that, during these combats, the Israeli military faced “potentially deadly, widespread and indiscriminate” shots, according to a spokesman quoted by the newspaper ‘The Jerusalem Post’.
The Army also alludes as “another possibility” to the Palestinian origin of these bullets, although a spokesman who has spoken with the media has admitted that the probability that it was an Israeli soldier who pulled the trigger is “greater”. This soldier fired a total of twenty bullets.
Abu Aklé was wearing a vest and a helmet that identified her as a press worker and was shot in the head. Her funeral in the West Bank was also the subject of controversy, after Israeli security forces charged the pallbearers.
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