Just as words like apartheid and genocide have actual definitions, so does “occupation” have strict definition under international law and precedent.

The full extent of the capitulation to the Biden administration became apparent this week.

Rather than pushing back against the US pressure to investigate the incident just because she is a journalist, Israel buckled under the pressure.

"Everybody is asking me now if I feel closure. They don't understand that there will never be closure. The hole in my heart will never, never heal," Ankie Spitzer, whose husband Andre was murdered in the massacre, says.

Israeli sources note that the IDF will not court-martial the troops that were involved in the deadly shooting of the Al-Jazeera journalist despite the calls in the international community to do so, citing the fact that the investigation has not indicated a deliberate targeting of the journalist.