The assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh.. Washington stresses that the investigations will be completed quickly, and the head of a Knesset committee: Israel will apologize if its responsibility is proven

The US State Department spokesman, Ned Price, reiterated that his country expects full accountability for those who are proven to be accused of killing Al-Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh.

Price made it clear, during the daily press conference of the State Department, that the United States will not impose a deadline for the completion of investigations into the case, but it wants to do so as soon as possible.

The US spokesman added, "We have made it clear to both the Israeli and Palestinian authorities that we expect that their investigations into the circumstances of the killing of Shireen Abu Aqleh will be transparent, impartial and thorough, and we also expect full accountability for those responsible for her killing. We will not prejudge the results of the investigations, as they are still ongoing on both sides. We have told our partners that we expect them to update us on it. But in the end we want to see accountability."

For her part, Qatar's delegate to the United Nations, Alia Al-Thani, said that Qatar condemns in the strongest terms the assassination of the Israeli occupation forces, Shereen Abu Aqleh, and the injury of Ali Al-Samudi in Jenin.

The Qatari delegate described, during an open session of the UN Security Council on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, the killing of Sherine Abu Aqleh and the injury of Ali Al-Samoudi as a heinous crime and a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.

It also affirmed the council's call for an immediate, comprehensive, transparent, fair and impartial investigation and to ensure that those responsible are held accountable.

In turn, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, said in an interview with Al Jazeera from Davos that it is not too late to open an investigation into the assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh.

But he made it clear that there is a long history of Israeli investigations that end without punishment or accountability.

Israeli officials have criticized the CNN investigation, and the Israeli radio quoted officials in Tel Aviv as saying that the investigation is full of inaccuracies and question marks, and that no definitive conclusion can be reached before a comprehensive investigation is completed, as they put it.

For his part, the head of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, Ram Ben Brak, told Israel Radio that the army does not deliberately shoot journalists, as he put it.

In an intervention with Al Jazeera, Chris Cobb Smith, a security advisor and security expert specializing in weapons and munitions - one of those who participated in the CNN report on Shirin's killing - said it was hard to believe that Israeli forces were not targeting journalists.

CNN had reported that it had collected evidence confirming that the Israeli army had deliberately targeted Al-Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Aqleh in Jenin.

A report by the American network said that its team's investigation and the evidence it collected indicate that Shirin was targeted by the Israeli forces, and that the evidence confirms that there were no militants or armed confrontations near Shirin during the moments before her killing.

An investigation by the Associated Press concluded that the bullet that killed Shirin was fired from an Israeli soldier's rifle.

It is noteworthy that an investigation of the island had earlier reached the same conclusion.

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Jordanian medal for Sherine

On the other hand, King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein of Jordan awarded the late Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqleh the Independence Medal of the first degree, in appreciation of her role in performing her duties and covering events with courage.

This came during his patronage of the national celebration of the kingdom's 76th independence anniversary, in the courtyard of the Husseiniya Palace in the capital, Amman, according to a statement by the royal court.

The medal was received by Tariq Antoun Abu Aqleh, brother of the late Sherine.

In the middle of this month, King Abdullah II described the assassination of Abu Aqila as a crime and an infringement on the freedom of the press, while offering condolences to her family by phone.

At that time, the King directed a government media institute in the country to allocate an annual master's scholarship for Palestinian women journalists, bearing the name of the late woman and under the name "Shirin Abu Akleh scholarship."

And the Israeli occupation authorities are still refraining from opening an investigation into the killing of Shireen Abu Aqleh, although her initial examinations proved that its soldiers fired at the site where the Al-Jazeera reporter was while covering the storming of Jenin and her camp on May 11 by the occupation forces.