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“There was no need to open a Military Police investigation at this stage,” the Israeli military said in a statement, quoted by the Jewish daily Jerusalem Post.
The Israeli military said today it would not open a criminal investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who lost her life after being shot in the head while covering an Israeli attack on a refugee camp in the Palestinian city of Jenin, reports the Turkish agency Anadolu.
“There was no need to open a Military Police investigation at this stage,” the Israeli military said in a statement.
The statement said there was “no real suspicion of criminal acts” in Abu Akleh’s assassination, adding that the army’s interim investigation could not determine whether she was killed by Israeli or Palestinian gunfire.
The development comes though the world community was shocked by the apparently sniper killing of the journalist wearing the vest press symbols and helmet on his head.
On May 11, Abu Akleh, 51, was reporting on an Israeli military raid near the Yenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank when she was shot dead. Palestinian officials and the network she worked for, Al Jazeera, said she was killed by Israeli forces.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the decision and held Israel fully responsible for the killing.
Many governments, rights groups and the press have called for a transparent investigation into the killing of a veteran Palestinian journalist.
Another shock was the footage of her body being escorted out of the hospital in Jerusalem where Israeli police began attacking the coffin holders by hitting them in the leg with rubber truncheons, until at one point the coffin of the deceased fell from their hands.
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