has there been any confirmation on who actually killed her?
My takeaway last time I checked available evidence was;
- It was a firefight where either side could have killed her. She was in a vehicle in the line of fire between both Hamas gunmen who opened fire on IDF vehicles, and the IDF returning fire from those vehicles
- Palestinians filmed themselves claiming to have shot and killed an Israeli soldier, but were already a few blocks away and under unclear circumstances
- No Israeli soldiers were shot, so it would make sense if they mistook her being shot as an Israeli soldier given the gear she wore, but even if they did see her get shot, they might falsely take credit for it or mistakenly believe it was them even if it was Israeli fire
- Palestinians refused to turn over her body to Israel for forensic analysis or give any details of the bullet found, and have so far covered it up
- Nobody has explained to me why the fuck it should matter who actually fired the shot, if the circumstances could explain it with no more intent on either side, being collateral to a mutual firefight in either scenario.
In a court of law or in any formal determination of moral culpability, the answer is that the Palestinians would bear responsibility for the death of someone killed as a consequence of their ambush attack, even if that person was a bystander killed by a stray bullet from forces shooting back at them. This is a long established concept in law enforcement. If you rob a bank and get in a shootout with police, and the police kill a bystander while shooting at you,
you are guilty of felony murder for the death of that person. Not police. Because your felony action was the proximate cause of that death, the inherently dangerous act with foreseeable lethality.
Its uncontested that the Palestinians staged an ambush on the IDF, its uncontested that they exchanged gunfire that could have easily killed bystanders, but its contested who's bullet killed her. Its also irrelevant.
Probably never find out which sides bullet actually killed her but certainly the Palestinians as well as anti-Israeli outlets like Al Jazeera are not going to pass up the opportunity to cast Israel in a bad light.
Optics look terrible for Israel that's for sure.