Tests on the bullet that killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh | are inconclusive, the US State Department announced today. “After an extremely detailed forensic analysis, independent third-party examiners, as part of a process overseen by the United States Security Coordinator, were unable to reach a definitive conclusion on the origin of the bullet that killed the Palestinian journalist. -American Shireen Abu Akleh ”, reads the statement from the State Department.
The UN accuses Israel: “The Al Jazeera reporter was killed by the army”
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“Ballistics determined that the bullet was badly damaged, which prevented a clear conclusion.” Ballistic tests can be performed on bullets to attempt to identify unique signature marks for specific firearms. A photo released by Al Jazeera allegedly of the bullet that killed Abu Akleh shows that the bullet has a strange deformation, albeit largely intact. According to Al Jazeera, the bullet would have ricocheted inside Abu Akleh’s helmet.
The New York Times: “The bullet that killed the Al Jazeera reporter came from an Israeli convoy”
by Massimo Basile
Akleh, a veteran journalist of the Arab-Israeli conflict and well known in the Middle East, was covering the evacuation of a refugee camp in Jenin on 11 May when she received a blow to the head that cost her her life. Witnesses and colleagues on the spot immediately accused the Israeli army. The Israeli authorities still deny the accusations and blame the death as a result of the crossfire, where the bullet could have started from the Palestinian side.
Clashes at the funeral of the journalist killed in the West Bank
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This latest reconstruction has been disproved by numerous journalistic inquiries starting from the Washington Post, Bellingcat and finally the New York Times, but also by a United Nations investigation.