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Blinken: US wants ‘independent’ probe of Abu Akleh killing

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken signs a guest book before his meeting with Israel's President Isaac Herzog on March 27, 2022, in Jerusalem [File: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has promised to pursue accountability for the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh wherever facts lead, calling for an “independent” probe into the incident.

The well-known veteran journalist, a Palestinian American, was fatally shot by Israeli forces on May 11 as she was covering an Israeli army raid in the Jenin camp in the north of the occupied West Bank according to witnesses and colleagues near her.

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