Bullet Too Broken to Say Who Killed Shireen Abu Akleh, U.S. Finds

JERUSALEM — The State Division mentioned on Monday that it couldn’t decide the origin of a bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian American journalist shot dead in the occupied West Bank in Might, however concluded that gunfire from Israeli army positions was prone to blame.

The bullet was too badly broken to attract a definitive conclusion in regards to the gun it was fired from, in line with a State Division assertion, however pictures fired from the place of the Israel Protection Forces have been “probably liable for the dying.”

U.S. officers “discovered no motive to imagine that this was intentional however moderately the results of tragic circumstances throughout an I.D.F.-led army operation,” the assertion mentioned.

Palestinian officers have maintained that Ms. Abu Akleh was deliberately killed by an Israeli soldier. The Israeli authorities had forged doubt on that, saying that she was hit by both an Israeli soldier or a Palestinian gunman.