Families of US citizens killed in Israel say Trump administration refuses to investigate
Families of US citizens killed in Israel say Trump administration refuses to investigate
The Trump administration has failed to make any "forward movement" on the investigations into the killing of several US citizens in Israel, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal said on Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
"My colleague and I pushed over and over again for accountability with absolutely no forward movement, no transparency, no insistence that the US protect, at the very minimum, its own citizens against Israeli government forces that have now killed eight US citizens and countless others with impunity," Jayapal said.
Jayapal was speaking at a press conference alongside the families of Rachel Corrie, Sayfollah "Saif" Musallet, Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, Aysenur Ezgi Aygi and Mohammed Ibrahim, all US citizens who were killed either by Israeli forces or settlers.
Eight US citizens have been killed, primarily in the last three years, and it is the first time that the families have joined forces to demand a US-led investigation and accountability into their deaths.
