INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
In a memorial ceremony marking 40 days since the murder of Shireen Abu Aqleh by Israeli regime forces, the Palestinian Authority has
demanded the occupation forces hand over the assault rifle that killed the prominent Palestinian journalist
High-ranking Palestinian political figures attended the commemoration event, in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, including Prime
Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh who delivered a speech saying "we have refused to hand over the bullet to them, and we demand that they hand over
the weapon that murdered Shireen Abu Aqleh,"Abu Aqleh was shot and killed last month while covering an Israeli military raid in the Jenin
reflected identical results by many organizations and media outlets including CNN, Al Jazeera, and several other major news organizations
who conducted their own investigations.Abu Aqleh was a household name in the Arab world, the 51-year-old covered, uncovered, and exposed
Israeli campaign to silence the Palestinian voice in a similar fashion to its designation of six Palestinian civil society groups as
These were groups that provided evidence to the ICC investigating Israeli war crimes, as well as information to the outside world about
well as the martyrdom of the [female] journalists Ghufran and Rasna, as well as female prisoners and detainees in the occupation
It is available and used by the units
has pledged to retain possession of the bullet, refusing to hand it over to the Israeli military saying it does not trust the
regime.Palestinians have instead referred the case to the international criminal court in The Hague, which is investigating Israeli war
Abu Aqleh is a war crime that is added to the list of systematic crimes, and that the occupation is committing its crimes against the
submitted a report to the International Criminal Office about the crime of assassinating Abu Aqleh, and on the ninth of this month, we
handed over the prosecutor to the court, Karim Khan, the investigation file related to her martyrdom, and that the State of Palestine will
investigation will lead to accountability
regularly claims to be conducting an investigation after killing journalists but nothing ever emerges from the alleged probe
The case of Yasser Murtaja is one of the more notable recent murders by Israeli regime snipers
After Murtaja was shot dead in 2018 in the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel only claimed to have launched an investigation into his murder after
possession, causing the casket to fall
evidence points to the targeted killing of the Al Jazeera journalist during a time of heightened tensions in occupied Palestinian
his gratitude to everyone who have stood up for his sister over the past 40 days.
