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The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.<\/p>\n
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Question<\/u>:\u00a0 So, I just wanted to follow up\u2026 I have two quick questions regarding our colleague, Shireen Abu Akleh.\u00a0 I know there was a statement<\/a> last week, and we tried getting a clarification on what was meant by “independent investigation” in the statement you put out yesterday \u2014 last week, sorry \u2014 and who would conduct this independent investigation? \u00a0Especially that the Palestinians have been going through with their own investigation and if\u2026 I mean, just clarifying that.\u00a0 And the second question is, we all saw the attack on the pallbearers, and I know there was a reaction from you from Farhan [Haq] on Friday regarding that, but, today, new footage was also released of Israeli forces actually storming the hospital where Shireen’s casket was, so if you have any comment on that.<\/p>\n Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Look, an independent investigation, I think, is exactly that, independent.\u00a0 It would have to be agreed to by all the parties involved.\u00a0 I think we can only be shocked at the footage that we saw and the events that we saw around the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh.\u00a0 It is important that not only funerals, but also hospitals be\u2026 their sanctity, in a sense, be respected.\u00a0 We’ve taken note, from what I’ve seen, also of the Israelis saying they would have an investigation to the conduct of the police.\u00a0 We hope that investigation is done quickly and that the results made public.<\/p>\n \/…<\/p>\n For information media. Not an official record.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General. \/… Questions and Answers \/… Question:\u00a0 So, I just wanted to follow up\u2026 I have two quick questions regarding our colleague, Shireen Abu Akleh.\u00a0 I know there was a statement last week, and we tried getting a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2573],"document-source":[5352,6169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1829,1857,1961,6644,5033,2385,6245],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-275592","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-highlights-of-the-noon-briefing","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-global-communications","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-jerusalem","document-subject-media-journalists","document-subject-protests","document-subject-security-issues","document-subject-violence","entity-united-nations-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/275592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/275592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=275592"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=275592"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=275592"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=275592"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=275592"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=275592"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=275592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}