(5 Jul 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ramallah, West Bank - 5 July 2022
1. Set up shot of Wasel Abu Yousef, Executive Committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wasel Abu Yousef, PLO Executive Committee member:
"The (conclusion of the) American report about the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh by an occupation soldier, a direct targeting, is what Palestinian probes already concluded. We were expecting that there would be no clarity when it comes to holding the occupation responsible for the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh because the United States of America is the main supporter of the occupation and it covers up their crimes. So this was completely expected."
3. Cutaway of hand
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wasel Abu Yousef, PLO Executive Committee member:
"It is wrong to rely on a report from the United States of America to examine this bullet that was handed over to them because they are covering up the crimes of the occupation and nothing more than that."
5. Wide of Abu Yousef speaking
STORYLINE:
A senior Palestinian official on Tuesday said that no clarity was expected from the U.S. in its probe into the killing of veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh.
U.S. officials have concluded that the bullet that killed Abu Akleh was likely fired from an Israeli position.
But they say it is too badly damaged to reach an absolute determination, and that there is "no reason to believe" she was deliberately targeted.
"We were expecting that there would be no clarity when it comes to holding the occupation responsible for the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh," said Wasel Abu Yousef, Executive Committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
He added that the U.S. "is the main supporter of the occupation and it covers up their crimes."
State Department spokesman Ned Price, announcing the results of the probe on Monday, said "independent, third-party examiners" had undertaken an "extremely detailed forensic analysis" of the bullet that killed the journalist.
Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian-American correspondent who was well known and respected throughout the Arab world, was shot and killed while covering an Israeli military raid on May 11 in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian eyewitnesses, including her crew, say Israeli troops killed her and that there were no militants in the immediate vicinity or any exchange of fire at the time she was shot.
The Palestinian Authority handed over the bullet to U.S. investigators but is opposed to any Israeli role in the investigation.
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