Democratic Sen. ChrisVanHollen urged the White House on Monday to entirely publicize a report investigating the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
The Democratic senator said he had reviewed the report conducted by the U.S. security coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority , and now he wants it entirely declassified.
Abu Akleh was killed in a shooting on May 11, 2022, while covering an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Jenin. The State Department investigated the veteran journalist's death, finding that, while it could not definitively determine who fired the shot that killed her, it was likely from Israeli gunfire.
But Van Hollen reportedly pointed to impediments in the investigation, such as the USSC not being granted access to key witnesses and being “unable to conduct an independent investigation” into the killing.Diplomatic relations between Israel and the U.S. were made more complicated at the start of the year by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's increasingly emboldened far-right government and its comments on Palestine and Palestinian citizens.
While the U.S. preaches peace between Israel and Palestine, it undoubtedly watches its words closely on Israel, one of its biggest and most powerful allies, largely due to its strategic importance in the Middle East.
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