Blinken meets family of slain US-Palestinian journalist
By DW
29 July 2022 |
2:58 pm
Relatives of the late journalist Shireen Abu Akleh pressed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for accountability. The US-Palestinian reporter was killed as she covered an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank.
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