A retired U.S. colonel who investigated the death of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has gone public to accuse the Biden administration of “inaction” and a possible “cover-up.” Steve Gabavics says the U.S. government soft-pedaled the finding that Israeli forces intentionally killed her to appease the Israeli government. He and his colleagues were left flabbergasted by the Biden State Department’s statement attributing Abu Akleh’s killing to “tragic circumstances” rather than formally assigning blame. “It all came down to, in my mind, not trying to anger the Israelis by holding them accountable for intentionally killing an American citizen,” Gabavics tells Democracy Now!
  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    So, the vest goes up near to her neck. You’ve got the helmet. So you have to really aim to get her in the neck… no obstructions from where the IDF sat at 190 meters away down to where Shireen Abu Akleh was at and where she was actually shot… From there, we had representatives from the Palestinian Authority security forces in blue vests, and then have a helmet with, as well, so we could see them at the same exact locations that the — Shireen Abu Akleh was at. And from 190 meters away, we could clearly see, just with our plain eyes, that this was a blue vest and a blue helmet. From there, we looked and did a straight-line trajectory, utilizing some capabilities to see exactly how the angles of the shots would have gone from where they were at, and then also with an optic to see how clearly we’d be able to see that the individual was wearing a blue vest that would have said “media” and a blue helmet.