NEW: The Biden administration is pressing Israel and the Palestinian Authority to launch a joint investigation into the death of Palestinian American Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh ASAP, according to three sources briefed on the issue.
A group of Palestinian journalists gather to protest the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Photo: Wisam Hashlamoun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
The Palestinian Ministry of Health and Al Jazeera, including journalists who witnessed the incident, said she was killed by Israeli gunfire. U.S. ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield said in a briefing to reporters in New York that the Biden administration is “encouraging both sides to participate in that investigation so that we can get down to why this happened."
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