Armed men carry the body of an Al Jazeera journalist in the West Bank. File photoWASHINGTON, May 13.The United States protested to Israel over the actions of the Israeli police during the funeral of the murdered Al Jazeera journalist Shirin Abu Akle, Axios reports, citing unnamed American and Israeli officials. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki previously expressed concern about footage that appeared on the network, in which the Israeli police disperse the participants in the funeral of the murdered journalist. US President Joe Biden, in turn, refused to publicly comment on this story in detail, emphasizing only that the murder of the correspondent should be investigated.More than 50 Palestinians were injured in clashes in the West Bank According to the portal, the White House «experiences anger and disappointment» on this occasion. The portal does not provide other details. This week, Al Jazeera, an Arab satellite channel broadcasting from Qatar, reported that its employee Shirin Abu Akle was fatally shot in the head while covering an Israeli military raid on a Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin in the West Bank of Jordan. Her death was confirmed by the Palestinian Ministry of Health Israel put forward the version that the reporter could have come under fire from Palestinian militants, but a colleague who was with her at the time of her death said that there were no shootings at their location.Israel offered Palestine a joint investigation into the death of a journalist. — the Israeli army service said that based on the results of the preliminary investigation, it was impossible to unequivocally determine the source of the shooting in the West Bank, which killed the journalist. The IDF notes that obtaining a bullet for professional ballistic testing can help determine which of these opportunities had Yes, but the Palestinian Authority did not respond to the proposal for a joint investigation. They also did not respond to a request to hand over the results of their investigation or the bullet to the Israeli army.
