US says Israeli military gunfire likely responsible for Shireen Abu Akleh's death
An examination of the bullet that killed Al Jazeera correspondent and Palestinian-American citizen Shireen Abu Akleh "could not reach a definitive conclusion" regarding its origin, due to the condition of the bullet, but the US Security Coordinator has "concluded that gunfire from [Israel Defense Forces] positions was likely responsible" for her death, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement Monday.
Price said that conclusion on the likely responsibility for the killing came "by summarizing both" the IDF and Palestinian Authority investigations -- probes to which the US Security Coordinator was granted "full access" over the past several weeks.
The Security Coordinator, Price said, "found no reason to believe that this was intentional but rather the result of tragic circumstances during an IDF-led military operation against factions of Palestinian Islamic Jihad on May 11, 2022, in Jenin, which followed a series of terrorist attacks in Israel."
The CNN report does not cite the Palestinian National Authority's findings, which clearly indicate that the bullet that killed Shireen came from an assault rifle used by Israeli forces.
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