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Blinken disregards Ample Evidence Linking Israel to the Murder of Shireen Abu Akleh.

June 9, 2022
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Blinken disregards Ample Evidence Linking Israel to the Murder of Shireen Abu Akleh.
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Despite eyewitness testimony, media investigations, and her employer condemning Israeli forces for her death, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declined to answer questions about why Israel has not been held accountable for the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

Abby Martin, the host of the independent documentary and interview series The Empire Files, asked Blinken why there have been “absolutely no repercussions” for Israel over the killing of Abu Akleh, or for Saudi Arabia over the killing of Middle East Eye columnist Jamal Khashoggi, during a Summit of the Americas event in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

“Secretary Blinken, what about Shireen Abu Akleh?” asked Martin. “She was murdered by Israeli forces. CNN just agreed to this. These are our two greatest allies in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Israel. They have murdered American journalists and there have been absolutely no repercussions.”

“Why is there no accountability for Israel or Saudi Arabia for murdering journalists?”

Blinken responded by saying: “I deplore the loss of Shireen. She was a remarkable journalist, an American citizen.”

After Martin objected to Blinken’s protestation that the evidence in the case was not yet clear, saying, “I’m sorry, with respect, [the facts] have not yet been established.”

“We are looking for an independent, credible investigation. When that investigation happens, we will follow the facts, wherever they lead. It’s as straightforward as that,” Blinken followed.

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The remarks effectively dismissed an investigation carried out by the Palestinian Authority (PA), which concluded last month that Abu Akleh had been deliberately targeted by Israeli forces.

Eyewitnesses and colleagues who were present at the time of the killing, including Middle East Eye correspondent Shatha Hanaysha, have all said that Abu Akleh was in fact targeted by an Israeli sniper. Al Jazeera has said Abu Akleh was “assassinated in cold blood”.

The CNN investigation that Martin referenced concluded that “there was no active combat, nor any Palestinian militants, near Abu Akleh in the moments leading up to her death” and that the evidence “suggests that Abu Akleh was shot dead in a targeted attack by Israeli forces”. ballistic experts’ consults have all led to the same conclusion that A: there was no combat, B: the shots that have missed Shireen were awfully close to each other to be merely accidental. C: 9 witnesses were present among footage that supported the same narrative.

The Associated Press, which has been always known for its unbias, has also carried out a reconstruction of Abu Akleh’s killing and reported that their findings lend “support to assertions from both Palestinian authorities and Abu Akleh’s colleagues that the bullet that cut her down came from an Israeli gun”.

Calls have grown both in the US and internationally for an independent investigation into Abu Akleh’s killing.

More than 50 US lawmakers signed a letter last month calling on the FBI and State Department to intervene and lead a probe.

On Monday, Republican Senator Mitt Romney, along with his Democratic colleague Senator Jon Ossoff, called on the Biden administration to conduct “a full and transparent investigation” into the killing.

The PA has refused to hand over the bullet to Israel, saying Israel could not be trusted to investigate the conduct of its military. Rights groups have also said Israel has a poor record of investigating the conduct of its forces in relation to Palestinian deaths.

Al Jazeera has referred the case to the International Criminal Court in the Hague and vowed to bring the killers to justice through all international legal platforms.

The ICC opens investigations in places where domestic authorities are unable or unwilling to look into allegations of abuse.

Israel, on the other hand, claims that it is exempt from the ICC’s jurisdiction because it is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, which founded the court, and that the ICC cannot examine atrocities in Palestinian areas because Palestine is not a state.

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