Exposed the allegations of the occupation army
The "Washington Post" reveals new facts that refute Israel's account of the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Abu Aqla lying on the ground after being shot.
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The shooter was aiming in the general direction of the journalists, where Shirin Abu Aqleh was.
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The American newspaper "Washington Post" examined more than 15 videos, social media posts and photos of the event, in its quest to uncover the truth about the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, and conducted two field inspections of the area, and issued two independent audio analyzes of the gunshots.
This review indicates that an Israeli soldier in the convoy may have shot and killed Abu Aqila.
The Israeli army says that it is possible that one of its soldiers fired the fatal shot, but at the same time it claims that the shooting was directed at a Palestinian gunman who was standing between the Israeli soldiers and journalists Shirin Abu Aqleh and Ali al-Samudi, and that the two journalists may have been unintentionally shot.
fake novel
The IDF has not released any evidence of an armed person.
The available videos and audio evidence prove the falsehood of the Israeli army’s account, that there was an exchange of fire in the minutes before Abu Aqleh’s killing, and the accounts of many eyewitnesses interviewed by The Washington Post confirm that there was no exchange of fire at that time.
Audio analyzes of the shell that likely killed Abu Aqila indicates that a person fired from a distance roughly identical to the distance between the journalists and the Israeli army convoy.
According to a video clip filmed by the "Washington Post" newspaper in Jenin, it seems clear that the Israeli army personnel could clearly see Abu Aqleh and other journalists from their position, which is about 182 meters away from them.
The Israeli army later stated in a press statement that at least one soldier in the convoy was using a telescopic sight.
A live broadcast on Tik Tok, filmed seven minutes before the shooting, shows a relatively calm scene with people walking around. Single gunshots can be heard from a distance at times, but there is no evidence of a gun battle.
The Israeli army said, in written responses to the questions, that it "will continue to responsibly investigate the incident in order to get to the truth of this tragic incident."
He said that the bullet is necessary to reach a conclusion about the source of the shooting that killed Abu Aqila, and it is an important source for reaching an evidence-based conclusion, but the Palestinians reject the Israeli army's offer to conduct a joint criminal examination of the bullet with American representation.
insistence on allegations
The Chief of the IDF's General Staff, Major General Aviv Kohavi, reiterated Israel's previous claims that it was investigating whether the bullet had been fired by the Israeli army or a Palestinian militant.
He also said, "There is one thing that can be determined with certainty: No Israeli soldier has deliberately shot a journalist. We have investigated this, and this is the conclusion and there is no other."
The Israeli army did not mention how it came to the conclusion that its soldiers did not know that there were journalists, or that they did not deliberately target them.
An Israeli army spokesman referred to statements made by an Israeli military official, Colonel Eric Moyle, in a television interview, in which he said that there was a "high probability" that Abu Aqla had been hit by Palestinian fire, rather than by one of the five bullets fired by a soldier. An Israeli was present that day, but he provided no evidence for this claim.
shooting
Shortly after six in the morning, Abu Aqila sent an email to Al Jazeera's office, stating that "the occupation forces are storming the Jenin refugee camp and besieging a house in the Jabriyat neighborhood," referring to two operations carried out by the Israeli army.
She wrote that she will update the network on the situation as soon as she arrives at the camp.
By 6:15 a.m., by the time I got there, other journalists, including Shaza Hanaysha and Ali al-Samudi, had gathered at a roundabout at the entrance to the camp.
Hanaisheh recalls, "Life on the main road was going normally, and there were people in cars that took them to work, and the foot traffic was normal."
tragic accident
Salim Awad, 27, from Jenin, started a live broadcast on the Tik Tok platform around 6:24 am.
In the video of this broadcast, obtained by The Washington Post, a journalist told Awad that IDF forces are stationed in the southwest.
Meanwhile, the journalists in the video can be seen standing at their site wearing helmets and protective suits marked "press".
"I'm going to photograph them," Awad said, rushing in front of the reporters;
That is, the Israeli soldiers, as he approached an intersection with three gunshots from afar, and after about two minutes he turned the camera south to reveal the presence of Israeli military vehicles about 182 meters away, according to the Washington Post's analysis of the footage.
He added, "There is an Israeli army."
The vehicles that were located at the same location, and the formations seen in the mobile camera footage of the operation are the same as those that were subsequently deployed by the IDF.
In another video obtained by The Washington Post, al-Samoudi is seen moving hastily, but cautiously, toward a silver car parked at the intersection.
As soon as he reached the road, seven more gunshots were fired.
The group of journalists once again pushed out of the corner.
Someone shouted: “Who was injured?” Hanaysha screamed for an ambulance, because Abu Aqila was hit by a bullet, as she later confirmed to the newspaper.
Three more shots rang out, then one of them shouted: Shireen!
Call an ambulance, ambulance!
Stay where you are, don't move, don't move.”
The camera pans to show Hanaysha sitting on the ground behind a tree, near Abu Aqla who is face down.
A group of men tried to reach the journalists by crossing the street for about a minute, when nine consecutive bullets were fired. At the same time, a man who had already crossed the street climbed over a demolished wall to reach Abu Aqla and Hanaysha.
As the man grabbed Abu Aqila's arm, apparently trying to move it, another shot was fired.
The man leaned back against the wall and bent, then was filmed by the camera driving Hanaysha away from the scene, back to the collapsed wall before someone rushed to carry Abu Aqila's body from behind the tree to the back seat of the car.
The Washington Post decided to publish the eight-minute video that Awad recorded in full below.
Conflicting Israeli interpretations
The IDF announced that its investigations were ongoing, but said it had already concluded that there was no criminal conduct in Abu Aqla's killing.
Initially, conflicting interpretations emerged from the Israeli army about the source of the shooting that led to the killing of Abu Aqleh, the Israeli army spokesman, Ran Kochav, admitted the incident for the first time in a tweet at 7:45 am, “An investigation is underway into the possibility of journalists being injured, perhaps Palestinian fire.
Later in the morning, he told Army Radio that it was "possible" that a Palestinian gunman was responsible.
And the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched a tweet with a modified version of a video clip that was filmed hours ago with the comment, and stated in the tweet that “it is likely that Palestinian terrorists opened fire indiscriminately, and wounded Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqla.”
Israel retracts its statement
The video released by the Israeli Foreign Ministry was recorded sometime before 6:41 a.m. The Washington Post found that the video, posted on social media, shows a Palestinian fighter firing two bullets into a stairwell before turning around to take to the street.
Investigators, including B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, were quick to locate the location where this video was recorded, noting that geography alone - including high walls, and a lack of line of sight for Abu Akila - made it impossible for these shots to have been. The same thing that hit the journalist.
The Israeli government retracted its initial statement regarding the incident, which stated that Abu Aqla was "probably" killed by a Palestinian gunman.
An Israeli government press release said they were investigating two possibilities.
One of the scenarios is that Abu Aqila was hit by a stray bullet, when Palestinian gunmen fired at Israeli military vehicles from different directions.
refute the slander
The available visual data reviewed by the Washington Post of Palestinian gunmen in Jenin shows that they were not stationed between Abu Aqila and the Israeli army, and they did not have a field of view for journalists at the time of the shooting.
The time on one of the photos shows that it was taken 14 minutes before Abu Aqleh was shot, and that it was recorded at a distance.
Two videos were captured showing a Palestinian gunman in the same area more than 10 minutes after Abu Aqla was shot.
The Washington Post was unable to confirm the exact time of this latest video, and the gunshots heard in another video filmed south of the whereabouts of the Israeli soldiers do not match those heard when Abu Aqla was shot, indicating that the video was recorded. Probably at a different time, however, The Washington Post was also unable to confirm the exact time.
precautions
"I went to cover the news," Al-Samoudi said.
He added, "The news, whatever it is, is not more valuable than my life, so I took all precautions for my life."
He said that those precautions included ensuring that no one was around him, who could injure journalists - if a gun battle broke out - whether they were armed men or even young men throwing stones at Israelis.
Al-Smoudi, who was released from the hospital but is still recovering from a gunshot wound to the shoulder, called on the IDF to release any video clip he filmed during the raid.
Lead sound analysis
At the request of the Washington Post, audio forensic expert Stephen Beck, who has been a consultant to the FBI for more than a decade, conducted a;
An analysis of the shooting heard in the two separate videos.
Beck discovered that the first two of the 13 rounds were fired from a distance of 175-195 meters from the cameras that recorded the scene, approximately the same distance between journalists and Israeli military vehicles.
The sound wave from the bullets was remarkably consistent, “indicating that one person was pulling the trigger of the supersonic gun,” Beck said, noting that the bullets were traveling at supersonic speed.
Beck explained that there are two slight deviations from the firing pattern, but it's possible that the deviations were caused by someone re-shooting.
It is likely that Abu Aqila was killed in one of the first and second bursts of fire.
Hanaysha, who was next to Abu Aqila, can be heard calling an ambulance immediately after the second shooting.
Later, she told "Washington Post" that her calls were to save Abu Aqila.
Audio analysis of the first two bursts also indicates that bullets were fired towards and very close to the journalists.
However, the analysis could not accurately determine the point of origin of the shots.
The Palestinian authorities, who were in possession of the bullet that killed Abu Aqila, said it was a 5.56×45mm round.
Beck said that he used a number of different weapons that fire that caliber in his analysis, but he did not find much difference between them in determining the distance between Abu Aqleh and the shooters.
Experts said that there were two successive bursts of shooting, after the bullet that killed Abu Aqila was fired, but it was difficult to determine its source.
Beck said the bursts, totaling at least 12 rounds, indicate that the shooter was moving from his position, having fired the first two, and he estimates that they may have been fired from approximately 10-30 meters from the journalists.
The shooter was aiming in the general direction of the reporters, but the bullets were passing farther from the group than in the first two bursts.
“The sound of the gunshots, the sound of echoes, and the timing of these explosions were very different from the burst that likely killed the journalist, indicating that the shooting site was different and much closer,” Beck told the Washington Post in an email. The message: "Without knowing the type of projectile, a more accurate estimate of the shooter's distance cannot be made."
A second analysis, conducted by a physics-based computer model designed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, similarly revealed that the first two bursts of fire originated from a distance of 233 meters from the camera, roughly consistent with Beck's analysis and the location of Israeli military vehicles.
But the model did not specify whether the first two bursts were fired by one or two shooters - only the distance between the gunman and the camera agrees with the two analyzes.
Like Beck, the researchers also used a number of different weapons in their analysis.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said that the third and fourth bursts indicated that they were fired from another soldier's gun, but they were unable to determine the distance of this soldier from the journalists due to the poor sound of the videos.
The American newspaper "Washington Post" examined more than 15 videos, social media posts and photos of the event, in its quest to uncover the truth about the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, and conducted two field inspections of the area, and issued two independent audio analyzes of the gunshots.
This review indicates that an Israeli soldier in the convoy may have shot and killed Abu Aqila.
According to a video clip filmed by the "Washington Post" newspaper in Jenin, it seems clear that the Israeli army personnel could clearly see Abu Aqleh and other journalists from their position, which is about 182 meters away from them.
Audio analyzes of the shell that likely killed Abu Aqila indicates that someone fired from a distance roughly identical to the distance between the journalists and the Israeli army convoy.
The Israeli military has not released any evidence of the presence of a Palestinian armed person.
Available videos and audio evidence prove the falsehood of the Israeli army's account that an exchange of fire took place in the minutes before Abu Aqla was killed.
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