President Biden said in Bethlehem on Friday the U.S. will continue to "insist on a full and transparent accounting" of the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
The big picture: A chair was left empty at a joint press conference between Biden and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to honor Abu Akleh, who was killed in May while covering an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. She was wearing a bulletproof vest marked "press" at the time. A poster was left in the chair with the Al Jazeera journalist's image and text that read, "Shireen Abu Akleh. The voice of Palestine."
