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Al Jazeera: Palestine rejects Israel’s offer to conduct joint autopsies after death of Al Jazeera journalist: Israeli Prime Minister – Times of India

May 11, 2022
Bharat Times

genin: one al Jazeera A journalist was shot dead during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the news channel and an injured aide alleged. Israel To kill her and the leader of Israel, saying that she could come under Palestinian fire.
Shirin Abu AklehoThe Qatar-based outlet said the 51-year-old, a Palestinian-American, was wearing a press vest clearly marked as a journalist while reporting in the city of Jenin. She was covering the latest in intense military incursions into the West Bank amid deadly Arab street attacks in Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement that according to the information Israel has gathered so far, “it appears that armed Palestinians – who were firing indiscriminately at the time – were responsible for the journalist’s unfortunate death.”
The Palestinian Health Ministry said he had been shot in the head. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that Al Jazeera described his death as a brutal, ruthless killing by Israeli forces.
“Great to learn of the death of American and Palestinian journalist Shirin Abu Akleh,” US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides wrote on Twitter. “I encourage a thorough investigation into the circumstances of his death and the injury of at least one other journalist in Janine today.”

Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, a Palestinian-American, was wearing a press vest that clearly marked that of a journalist while reporting in the city of Jenin (Al Jazeera website).

Israeli Prime Minister Bennett said the Palestinian Authority had rejected Israel’s offer to conduct a joint autopsy.
Ali Smodi, a Palestinian journalist who was wounded along with Abu Akleh, said Israeli forces “suddenly opened fire” on him during the operation.
“They didn’t ask us to leave and they didn’t ask us to stop (filming). They fired at us. One bullet hit me and the other Shirin. In Janine, told Reuters.
The military said in a statement that its troops had retaliated after being hit by “heavy gunfire” in Jenin.
Israeli military spokesman Ran Kochav told Army Radio that Abu Aqleh was close to a group of armed Palestinians who were firing “unclean”.
Asked about the military’s remarks, Smoody said: “We didn’t have any resistance fighters.”

US Embassy spokesman in Jerusalem said Abu Akleh covered the issues Middle East and internationally for more than two decades and was “deeply respected by many Palestinians and others around the world”.
Qatar’s deputy foreign minister said on Twitter that Qatar “strongly condemns the killing of (journalist) by the Israeli occupation forces”.
In a separate incident on Wednesday, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian during clashes near the West Bank city of Ramallah, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Israel had no immediate comment.