- As Al Jazeera and other local media have pointed out, the Israeli army will not investigate the murder of journalist Abu Akakari in Shire, whose family claims that this decision does not surprise them.
According to the Israel Military Police Criminal Investigation Division, the investigation of the murder of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akarrangi "could provoke a debate", so they decide not to investigate the murder. They consider that the fact that Israeli soldiers are suspected of having committed a murder in a trial would be a great debate in Israel, and in order to avoid it they will not investigate the murder. This information has been disseminated by the Israeli media Ha'aretz.
The Abu Aklehe family is not surprised by this decision by Israel, but they are asking to investigate the murder of their relative through a transparent process. "This was what we expected from Israel. So we didn't want them to be part of the research. We only want to hold the culprit responsible for the murder of Shireen," explains the Shireen Abu Aklehen family to Al Jazeera, the medium in which he worked.
They call on the international community, and specifically the United States, to launch an investigation, as Shireen was a United States citizen.