Two years ago, Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, and one of the purest souls alive, was murdered by Israeli forces while she was reporting in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. A couple of days later they attacked her funeral, violated her coffin, and beat up the mourners.
Initially, then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett falsely accused Palestinian fighters of shooting her – an allegation that was quickly disproven by independent reports. Eventually, Israel admitted that its soldiers killed Shireen and dismissed the incident as an accident, refusing to open a criminal investigation.
Immediately after Shireen’s killing, the administration of US President Joe Biden called for accountability, saying that “those responsible for Shireen’s killing should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law” (Shireen was a dual American citizen). By September 2022, the US dropped its demand that the perpetrators be prosecuted.
Accountability, officials said, could instead be accomplished by Israel changing its rules of engagement — a demand that was openly rejected by Israeli leaders. Washington has also rejected calls for an independent probe into the incident, arguing that Israel has functioning institutions capable of investigating the case.
The truth is, Israel almost never investigates, let alone prosecutes its own soldiers for abuses and should not be trusted to investigate itself. Only one Israeli soldier in Israel’s history has ever been charged for murder on the job, and that was the soldier who killed British photographer and activist Tom Hurndall. He only spent 6 years in jail.
The lack of accountability in Shireen’s killing helped pave the way for the rampant Israeli slaughter taking place in Gaza today, where over 120 journalists have already been killed.
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Medical needs, too.
The only goal is to push women down and give men advantages.