Des gauche américains desposé ce jeudi une proposition de loi visant à pousser les États-Unis à mener leur propre enquête sur la mort de la américano-palestinienne journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, une initiative sur laquelle Joe Biden n’a fait aucune promesse for now.
The family of Al Jazeera’s star journalist, who was shot dead on May 11 while covering an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank, traveled to Washington this week but did not get what they hoped for from US diplomacy.
Elected officials from the left of the Democratic Party have thus announced the introduction of a bill that would authorize US authorities to conduct their own investigation to determine the origin of the deadly shooting.
“We call on our colleagues to see this as a press freedom issue,” Democrat-elect Andre Carson told reporters, “to put aside political politics around Israel and the Palestinians to see what it is: an attack on independent journalism and the murder of one of our compatriots,” he added, next to relatives of Shireen Abu Akleh.
Meeting with the head of American diplomacy
The elected official also intends to introduce language aimed at making a US investigation mandatory for any US journalist killed abroad. The journalist’s family met with the head of US diplomacy in Washington on Tuesday to ask him to hold Israel responsible, but Antony Blinken did not commit to launching an independent investigation.
They traveled to Washington at the invitation of Anthony Blinken after unsuccessfully trying to meet with President Joe Biden during his recent visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
US diplomacy had determined on July 4, based on Israeli and Palestinian investigations, that Shireen Abu Akleh had “likely” been killed by fire from an Israeli position, without having reason to believe her death was intentional.
Source: BFM TV
