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US Justice Dept lawyers push for probe into Israel’s killing of Americans: Report
Lawyers at the US Department of Justice have sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking him to investigate “potential violations of US law by Israel’s government, military, and citizenry”, the news website Zeteo is reporting.
The lawyers highlighted three areas of potential inquiry, the report said: (Illegal) Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, possible war crimes and torture committed by Israeli forces and recent Israeli army killings of US citizens.
That includes American Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was fatally shot by Israeli forces at a West Bank protest in September, and Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist who was killed by the Israeli army in 2022 while covering a raid in Jenin.
Washington initially called for accountability in Abu Akleh’s killing. But it shifted its position after Israel admitted that its soldiers killed her and dismissed the incident as an accident, refusing to open a criminal investigation.
By September 2022, the US dropped its demand that the perpetrators be prosecuted.
Palestinians used as human shields – new investigations support Al Jazeera’s evidence
The Israeli military has again been accused of using Palestinian detainees as human shields.
Multiple investigations by international media have further supported an exclusive report first published by Al Jazeera in June. Al Jazeera reporting also found evidence of detainees dressed in Israeli military uniforms, who were forced to go ahead of Israeli soldiers to check for explosives and possible booby traps.
It’s believed hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza have been used as human shields in this way, which would be a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Michael Lynk, a former UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, explains why the use of Palestinians as human shields is against international humanitarian law.
Iran’s Pezeshkian says the West ‘shamelessly defends crime against humanity’
The Iranian president says the ongoing conflict “cannot end by killing one or two people, but end by establishing justice”, referring to Israel’s recent killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
He condemned European countries and the US for “supplying Israel with weapons and shamelessly defending every crime against humanity”.
“The governments and forces that talk about human rights and international law are violators of all laws and rights,” he added.
