We, Shireen Abu Akleh’s family, want a meeting with Joe Biden
Al JazeeraDuring his visit to the occupied West Bank, the US president should sit down with us to discuss what his administration can do to hold my aunt’s killer accountable. There is another meeting that Biden should add to his itinerary; one with my family – the family of the late renowned Palestinian American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. Though Israel initially tried to place the blame for her death on Palestinians, investigations by the Associated Press, CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the United Nations, and the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem all confirmed what my family already knew from eyewitness accounts of Shireen’s colleagues: an Israeli sniper shot my aunt in the head, just between her bullet proof vest and her protective helmet. Nonetheless, we hope Biden will sit down with us and be willing to hear from us what we expect the US government to do to ensure that Shireen’s killer is held accountable. In short, we would like Biden to do in Shireen’s case what his and previous US administrations have failed to do when other American citizens were killed by Israel: hold the killers accountable.
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