Calls for Israeli accountability

Police, mourners clash during a funeral procession. Pic/AP

Israeli forces have systematically evaded accountability in the deaths of 20 journalists in two decades, launching slow and opaque investigations that have never resulted in prosecution, an international press-freedom group said in a report on 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 working with the Al Jazeera.

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