Press group calls for Israeli accountability in media deaths
An international press-freedom group says the Israeli military has systematically evaded accountability in the deaths of 20 journalists over the past two decades JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military has systematically evaded accountability in the deaths of 20 journalists over the past two decades, launching slow and opaque investigations that have never resulted in prosecution or punishment, an international press-freedom group said in a report Tuesday. The Committee to Protect Journalists issued its report ahead of the one-year anniversary of the death of Shireen Abu Akleh — a Palestinian-American journalist with the Al Jazeera satellite channel who was killed while covering an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank. The army has said Abu Akleh was likely killed by Israeli fire, but said the shooting was accidental and not announced any disciplinary action. “The killing of Shireen Abu Akleh and the failure of the army’s investigative process to hold anyone responsible is not a o...