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More than a hundred members of Congress have joined calls by the family of Aishinor Aegee

for the White House to open an independent investigation into her death.

Agi was from Seattle and she was volunteering for a pro-Palestinian group in the West Bank

when she was likely, unintentionally killed by Israeli armed forces, according to Israeli

officials, a line of thought that President Biden echoes.

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