Sens. Mitt Romney and Jon Ossoff called for an investigation on Monday into the death of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American journalist who was killed while covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank last month.
“The killing of a U.S. citizen and of a journalist engaged in the work of reporting in a conflict zone is unacceptable,” the senators wrote in aArab American journalists around the world shared stories of slain reporter Shireen Abu Akleh’s impact and legacy in the wake of her killing on May 11.
“Press freedom is a core American value, and we cannot accept impunity when journalists are killed in the line of duty,” they wrote. The State Department did not respond overnight to a request from The Washington Post for comment about the letter or whether the Biden administration would launch an investigation into the killing of a U.S. citizen.Last month, State Department spokesman Ned Price said Israel had the “wherewithal and the capabilities to conduct a thorough, comprehensive investigation.”