{"id":1945029,"date":"2023-06-06T08:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T12:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senator-urges-report-on-palestinian-american-journalists-death-be-made-public\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T08:41:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T12:41:36","slug":"democratic-senator-urges-report-on-palestinian-american-journalists-death-be-made-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senator-urges-report-on-palestinian-american-journalists-death-be-made-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator calls for public release of report on Palestinian American journalist&#8217;s death."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-senator-urges-report-on-palestinian-american-journalists-death-be-made-public%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1945029&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Senator Calls for Public Release of Report on Palestinian American Journalist&#8217;s Killing<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) urged the White House on Monday to make a report investigating the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Democratic senator reviewed the report conducted by the U.S. security coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority and is now calling for its complete declassification. He believes that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-lawyers-help-biden-administration-gut-devoss-title-ix-rules\/\" title=\"Progressive Lawyers Help Biden Administration Gut DeVos\u2019s Title IX Rules\">public release<\/a> of the report is crucial to ensuring transparency and accountability in the shooting death of American citizen and journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. <\/p>\n<h3>Journalist Killed While Covering Israeli Raid<\/h3>\n<p>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&#8217;s death and found that it was likely from Israeli gunfire, although it could not definitively determine who fired the shot that killed her. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli and Palestinian leaders immediately blamed each other for the shooting. Israeli authorities initially claimed that Palestinian gunmen were behind the shooting but later backtracked the claim and said they could not rule out the possibility that an Israeli soldier shot Abu Akleh. Still, Israeli officials never opened an investigation into the shooting, prompting the United States to do so.<\/p>\n<h3>Impediments in the Investigation<\/h3>\n<p>Van Hollen pointed to impediments in the investigation, such as the U.S. security coordinator not being granted access to key witnesses and being \u201cunable to conduct an independent investigation\u201d into the killing. <\/p>\n<p>Diplomatic relations between Israel and the U.S. were made more complicated at the start of the year by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Hollen&#8217;s statement:<\/strong> \u201cI strongly believe that its public release is vital to ensuring transparency and accountability in the shooting death of American citizen and journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senator-urges-report-on-palestinian-american-journalists-death-be-made-public\/\" title=\"Senator calls for release of report on Palestinian-American journalist's death.\">avoiding future preventable<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senator-urges-report-on-palestinian-american-journalists-death-be-made-public\/\" title=\"Senator calls for public release of report on Palestinian American journalist's death.\">wrongful deaths \u2014 goals<\/a> we should all support,\u201d Van Hollen said in a statement, per Al Jazeera, the outlet for which Abu Akleh worked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) called on the White House to release a report on the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The report was conducted by the U.S. security coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and Sen. Van Hollen reviewed it after requesting it from the State Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1945030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4123,3755,6499,5313,6037,3799,3684,3819,4012],"class_list":["post-1945029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-american","tag-calls","tag-death","tag-journalists","tag-palestinian","tag-public","tag-release","tag-report","tag-senator"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}