Journalist calls Blinken a ‘criminal’ over US support for Israel during briefing

[KARAH RUCKER]

INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS WHO ARE OUTSPOKEN CRITICS AGAINST U-S SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL’S WAR AGAINST HAMAS IN GAZA REPEATEDLY INTERRUPTED SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN THURSDAY DURING HIS FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE.

TAKE A LISTEN.

[ANTONY BLINKEN AND JOURNALISTS]

AGAIN… I’M HAPPY TO ADDRESS QUESTIONS IN JUST A FEW MORE MINUTES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 

THE SITUATION ONLY GREW MORE TENSE FROM THERE.

[ANTONY BLINKEN AND SAM HUSSEINI]

FINALLY, THIS MORNING… GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME. GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME. GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME. ANSWER A DAMN QUESTION. [INAUDIBLE] ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS… EVERYONE FROM THE I-C-J… I WAS SITTING HERE QUIETLY AND NOW I’M BEING MANHANDLED BY TWO OR THREE PEOPLE. 

[KARAH RUCKER]

THE CHAOTIC SCENE IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT BRIEFING ROOM ONLY ENDED AFTER SECURITY FORCEFULLY REMOVED THE MAN IDENTIFIED AS INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST SAM HUSSEINI, A LONG-TIME CRITIC OF U-S FOREIGN POLICY, FROM THE ROOM AS HE CONTINUED TO YELL AT BLINKEN.

[SAM HUSSEINI]

PLEASE SIR, RESPECT THE PROCESS. THANK YOU. RESPECT THE PROCESS? RESPECT THE PROCESS WHILE EVERYONE FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SAYS WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING IS GENOCIDE AND EXTERMINATION, AND YOU TELL ME TO RESPECT THE PROCESS. CRIMINAL! WHY AREN’T YOU IN THE HAGUE? WHY AREN’T YOU IN THE HAGUE? WHY AREN’T YOU IN THE HAGUE?

[KARAH RUCKER]

BLINKEN, WHO LEAVES OFFICE MONDAY WHEN PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP IS INAUGURATED, LATER TOOK QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS.

BLINKEN’S BEEN HECKLED AT APPEARANCES IN D-C SINCE THE WAR IN GAZA BEGAN.

PRO-PALESTINIAN ACTIVISTS HAVE ALSO CAMPED OUTSIDE HIS HOME IN VIRGINIA AND THREW RED PAINT ON CARS CARRYING BLINKEN AND HIS FAMILY.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE HAS BEEN TARGETED BY PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS FOR THE U-S SUPPLYING WEAPONS TO ISRAEL AND DIPLOMATIC SUPPORT.

ISRAEL’S WAR AGAINST HAMAS AFTER THE TERROR GROUP’S OCTOBER 7TH ATTACK THAT LEFT 12-HUNDRED DEAD AND SAW SOME 250 ISRAELIS KIDNAPPED HAS KILLED MORE THAN 46-THOUSAND PALESTINIANS, ACCORDING TO THE HAMAS-CONTROLLED GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY.

WHILE ISRAEL HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF WAR CRIMES, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAID IT CANNOT DETERMINE IF IT VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW BECAUSE HAMAS HIDES WITHIN THE PALESTINIAN CIVILIAN POPULATION.

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