Cosa può pensare un filoisraeliano della morte di Ciriello?
Può pensare che ci sia stato un tentativo deliberato di far fuori un giornalista; che l'assassinio sia stato accidentale.
Può pensarlo, certo; ma non può credere ad una possibilità del genere, anche se non la può escludere.
Stasera, ascoltando il giornale radio, la versione che veniva diffusa era quella di un assassinio a sangue freddo.
Per cui sono andato a controllare sullo Ha'aretz: e vediamo cosa ci ho trovato.
"Also Wednesday, an Italian freelance journalist was killed by IDF tank fire in Ramallah, Palestinian hospital officials and witnesses said.
Photographer Rafael Ciriello, 42, on assignment for the Italian daily Courier della Sera, had worked in many of the world's hot spots. He was shot six times in the chest while covering the IDF takeover of Ramallah and is believed to be the first journalist killed in the year and a half of intense Israeli-Palestinian fighting.
A witness to the fatal shooting, fellow journalist Amide Rococo, said he and his colleague were following Palestinian gunmen through the center of Ramallah at about 90 A.M. (07
0 GMT) when an IDF tank appeared from around the corner. He said soldiers on the tank fired a machine gun from about 150 meters (yards) without warning, striking Ciriello in the stomach.
Doctors said he was hit six times in the abdomen. Rococo and another colleague, both of whom work for Italian television Rae No, were not hurt.
"Suddenly a tank appeared from a corner and it opened fire," Rococo said. "There was no fighting in the area."
In an interview with Rae TV, Rococo said in hindsight it appeared the Palestinian gunmen they saw earlier were signaling the arrival of the Israelis. He also added that after the burst of machine gunfire from the tank, he saw that an armed Palestinian had come out from behind the corner.
The IDF, which tightened its grip on Ramallah on Wednesday against the backdrop of daily Palestinian attacks in Israel, said it did not know the circumstances of Ciriello's death and had opened an investigation. "There has been cross fire for several days," said IDF spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Olivier Rafowicz. "We are not rushing to conclusions."
"It is important to remember that there have been exchanges of fire in Ramallah, and that this was the reason the army closed off the area to journalists yesterday," Rafowicz said."
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