Veteran Al -Jazeera correspondent Sherine Abu Aklele was killed 1000 days ago while covering an Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on May 11, 2022.

She was wearing a very noticeable helmet and journey when she was killed in what was convicted of the Al -Jazeera media network as a “cold blood assassination”.

The news agencies, law groups and the United Nations all conducted investigations into killing them and concluded that Abu Aklele was killed – may be intentional – by the Israeli forces.

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Abu Aklele was a familiar name in the Arabic -speaking world, a Palestinian -American journalist who covered the brutal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories for 25 years.

On the day she was killed, she was with many colleagues in a safe area away from the clashes and Crossfire, although there is a convoy in the Israeli army about 200 meters (660 feet).

The video was arrested and showed Abu Aklele on the ground, without mobility. Her colleagues who tried to come to help were shot.

Her death shocked the world and focused on the international spotlight on the Israeli killings of Palestinian journalists.

According to the CPJ’s committee (CPJ), Israel failed to hold any of its soldiers to kill 20 Palestinian journalists in 22 years before Abu Aklele’s death.

Since the Israel war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, CPJ has found that Israel had killed 159 Palestinian journalists.

Despite the increasing evidence that Abu Aklele was directly targeted, there is a few political will to conduct a criminal investigation in Israel, the United States, or in international courts.

Here is everything you need to know about seeking justice for Abu Aklely.

What did Israel say?

Israel initially tried to turn the blame on the accident and suggested that the Palestinian fighters had killed the journalist.

However, he eventually walked to this claim and acknowledged that her forces were responsible for her death, saying it was an “accident.”

One week later, the Israel Army He said he would not investigate the accident For fear of treating its soldiers as suspects, it will lead to controversy within Israeli society, according to Israeli news reports.

A year later, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hajari said The army was “very sorry” for death From Abu Aklele, he repeated the assertion that there was no intention to launch criminal measures against soldiers who are believed to be behind the killing.

The United States dropped its request to conduct an Israeli criminal investigation after Israel’s apology.

What did the United States say?

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Immediately after the death of Abu Aklele, the administration of the President of the United States at the time, Joe Biden, said that the perpetrators should “be tried to the maximum of the law.”

It changed its melody after Israel admitted its soldiers who killed Abu Aklele and refused to call for a criminal investigation, claiming that the shooting was a “accident” – and the demands of Israel to investigate the perpetrators in September 2022.

Two months later, The US Federal Investigation Office (FBI) has opened the investigation It was welcomed by Arab rights and civil society groups in the United States, but Israel has not cooperated with the investigation.

Did the United States achieve?

The Palestinian Authority (PA), a ruling body with a limited self -container in the occupied West Bank, The bullet that killed Abu Akleli was handed over American forensic experts.

The Palestinian Authority said it does not want Israel to participate in the analysis for fear that the Israeli authorities will do anything to protect its forces from accountability.

At that time, Israel was still claiming that the Palestinian armed groups had accidentally killed Abu Aklele.

But two days after receiving the bullet, the then US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkkin The analysis said “uninterrupted” because the bullet was severely damaged.

Who is the last publishing of investigations?

Several prevailing news organizations and open source investigation teams have made their own investigations.

In May 2022, CNN said it had new evidence – two video clip – they refer to that Abu Aqili had died in an attack by Israeli forces.

A Joint investigation It was also implemented by the Palestinian Legal Rights Group to catch up with criminal architecture, a group based in the UK specialized in open source analysis and architecture.

Their results were released in September 2022 and decided that Abu Aklele was deliberately killed.

Moreover, The documentary film is the front lines of the island of the islandSherine Abu Aklely was killed in December 2022 and doubts that Israel’s preliminary allegations were killed by Palestinian weapons fire or by Cross Fire.

Did the International Criminal Court do anything?

In December 2022, Al -Jazeera Media Network Make a request For the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open a case against Israel to kill Abu Aklele.

The Abu Aklela family submitted a similar request to the court in September of that year, with the support of the Palestinian Press Syndicate.

The International Criminal Court has not yet been revealed whether or not to follow up on justice to Abu Aklele.

What about the United Nations?

On October 16, 2023, the United Nations International Investigation Committee on the occupied Palestinian territories concluded that the Israeli forces used “deadly force without justification” to target Abu Aklele.

I also mentioned that there are reasonable reasons that the Israeli security forces unit had done so.

The committee relied on its results on eight witnesses of witnesses and a review of open source information, as well as investigations by news means including Al Jazeera, CNN, Washington Post and New York Times.

Al -Jazeera called for giving the results to the International Criminal Court to help its criminal investigation into the accident.