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Ali Harb

Shireen Abu Akleh killing: Advocates decry ‘abhorrent’ US stance

Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot by Israeli forces on May 11, 2022 [File: Al Jazeera]

Washington, DC – United States President Joe Biden often says that “journalism is not a crime”, invoking a phrase popular among press freedom advocates to denounce the repression, jailing, and killing of journalists around the world.

But a year after Israeli forces killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank, rights activists say the Biden administration has done next to nothing to push for accountability in the case.

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