US President Joe Biden’s administration has invited relatives of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to Washington, an American official said on Wednesday, as Biden arrived in Israel. Secretary of State Antony Blinken “has invited the family to the United States to be able to sit down and engage with him directly”, Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters aboard Air Force One, which touched down in Israel shortly past 1200 GMT. Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American, was killed while covering an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank in May. The United Nations h…