On July 4, local time, the US media CNN reported that the US Security Coordinator said after investigating a shooting in Palestine that the bullets that killed the victims may have been fired from the direction of the Israel Defense Forces, but there was no reason to believe that the Israeli army was deliberately killing people. The victims' families expressed disbelief with the conclusion and accused it of being "cold comfort". As for the bullet that caused the incident, the US side believes that the damage is too bad to conclude that it has been handed over to the Israeli side.
(Aklay is a popular local journalist.)
Well-known journalists were shot dead, triggering palestinian-Israeli clashes
On May 11 this year, a prominent female journalist for Al Jazeera, Sheeren Abu Acre, was shot dead during an interview. Aklay has been in the press for 25 years and is a household name in the Arab world and is widely popular with television audiences. At the time of the incident, Aklei was reporting on the Israeli military raid in a refugee camp in the West Bank. Although she was shot wearing body armor with a media logo and wearing a helmet, she was hit in the head by an armor-piercing bullet and tragically killed. Another Al Jazeera reporter was also shot, but fortunately the bullet did not hit the nail on the head. Witnesses present said it was Israeli army snipers who killed Aklay, and when she fell, a survivor tried to drag Aklay to safety, and Israeli troops shot at her.
After Aklay's murder, palestinians were agitated, while the Israeli government tried to suppress spontaneous remembrance of her. At her memorial ceremonies and funerals, Israel repeatedly dispatched military and police force to storm, triggering large-scale clashes. The method was so brutal that Aklay's coffin was thrown to the ground. After the incident, the White House called the scene disturbing, and the European Union publicly expressed its shock at Israel's approach.
(Protesting Palestinians)
The killing of journalists by Israel is not the first time it has happened and has not received much attention in the past, but this time it is different. Although Aklay is Palestinian, he has American citizenship, which means that a U.S. citizen can be brutally killed by Israeli forces. Despite the very close diplomatic relations between the United States and Israel, such events have complicated the situation. In response, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Neders publicly called for an investigation into the incident, and the U.S. State Department spokesperson and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations also issued strong condemnation, bluntly saying it was an insult to media freedom and saying the perpetrators must be held accountable. On the same day, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for an investigation, perhaps because of the nationality of the victims, and the representative of the United States, who has always favored Israel, rarely obstructed the passage of the resolution when voting.
The Israeli army is the most suspicious, and the Palestinians asked the United States to investigate but were betrayed
Preliminary investigations by several Western agencies show that Aklay was not only killed by the Israeli army, but also not by mistake, but by carefully targeted snipers. At first, Israel denied shooting Aklay and tried to claim that the Palestinians had shot the journalist, but more evidence suggested that Israeli soldiers might be the real killers. The Israeli Minister of Defence demanded that the Palestinians hand over the bullets that hit Aklay for investigation, but in view of Israel's consistent condoned cases of such shootings of Palestinians, the families of the victims, fearing that the truth would be covered up, did not trust Israeli officials and refused to investigate jointly with them. Considering that Aklay is American, the Palestinians ultimately place their hopes on the U.S. government to do justice.
(The violence of the Israeli military and police has been criticized by the international community for many years)
Just when people were expecting justice to be preached and the truth to be made public, things took a surprising turn. On Sunday, Israeli security officials said it would take days for the bullets in the incident to be tested. As soon as the news came out, the Palestinians were shocked. The Palestinian Authority's attorney general said that when the bullet was handed over to the U.S. representative a day ago, the U.S. side promised that the inspection would be carried out at the U.S. embassy and that the Israeli side would not be involved. However, just a day later, the most crucial direct evidence of the incident was handed over to the Israeli side by the United States, and worse, the United States and Israel quickly hastily declared that the bullet was badly damaged, not enough to prove that the Israeli soldiers killed Aklay. The Palestinian side expressed great disappointment at the transparency of the US investigation and has withdrawn the bullets and no longer trusts the US help.
(U.S. Ambassador to Israel)
In fact, such an outcome is not surprising, and Israel directly affects the core interests of the United States in the Middle East, which is of higher value than the united states to defend human rights. It can be said that in most cases, the US government and Israel wear a pair of pants. The only difference is that the victim has American citizenship, which means that the U.S. authorities will at least have to come forward to do the show, but this does not mean that the United States will slap its allies for a human life, even if it is an American life. In this unfortunate event, the Middle East was, and will continue to be, a predatory arena, and in this unfortunate event, the Palestinians are looking on the United States to do justice for themselves.