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🧵: Israel’s foreign ministry and US embassy tweeted a video showing Palestinian gunmen in Jenin firing down an alley, suggesting they likely hit Shireen Abu Akleh.
However, footage, satellite imagery, geolocation, and eyewitness accounts debunk Israel’s claims
Where were the Palestinian gunmen?
Videos from the morning show a man shooting down an alleyway in Jenin’s refugee camp, in the northern West Bank.
3 landmarks, the corner of a building, a building with a red roof, and what appears to be a graveyard help geolocate the image
How about the Israeli soldiers?
Another video shows Israeli soldiers coming from the city's west, driving east.
The same building with the 3 water tankers where the Palestinian gunmen were firing is visible in the clip, suggesting that the soldiers were somewhere to the west
Where was the fighting?
It is impossible from the available evidence to say exactly where the fighting took place, but the direction of fire of the Palestinians and the location of the Israeli forces suggest there was gunfire to the west of the graveyard and to the south
Where was Shireen Abu Akleh?
Abu Akleh was shot and killed further to the north, at the main entrance to Jenin refugee camp, near the main roundabout, at a junction
Meanwhile, the gunfight in the alleyways of the camp was far from the roundabout and far from the house of the person Israeli forces wanted to arrest
An NGO researcher visited the scene where the footage of the Palestinian gunmen was taken and walked to where Abu Akleh was hit, going down several streets and narrow alleys ⤵️
They concluded that it was impossible for her to have been hit from where the Palestinians were shooting
More here ⤵️
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