Al Jazeera has officially requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) to research the deadly capturing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
The Palestinian-American reporter was once killed in May whilst protecting Israeli army raids within the occupied West Bank the town of Jenin.
Al Jazeera has accused the Israeli govt of in particular focused on its reporters, calling Abu Akleh’s loss of life a warfare crime.
The information outlet needs ICC prosecutor Karim Khan to research the reporter’s killing, in addition to remaining yr’s Israeli airstrike on Al Jazeera’s places of work within the Gaza Strip.
“My family still doesn’t know who shot the deadly bullet,” Shireen’s niece, Lena, informed journalists right through a press convention on Tuesday.
The circle of relatives submitted their very own request for an ICC investigation in September, whilst Palestinians have all the time blamed Israel for the killing.
The Israeli military admitted in September there was once a “high possibility” that its soldier had killed the outstanding journalist however mentioned the capturing was once unintended.
“No-one will investigate [Israeli] soldiers and no one will preach to us about morals in warfare, certainly not Al-Jazeera,” Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid mentioned based on Tuesday’s submitting.
Israel has all the time denied that Abu Akleh were centered, pronouncing the soldier could have “misidentified her as armed Palestinian gunmen”.
A UN document in June discovered that Abu Akleh were status with different journalists and was once obviously identifiable as a journalist from her helmet and blue jacket when she was once shot. Witness accounts and movies additionally display there was once simplest restricted militant task within the house the place the journalist was once killed.
Last yr, ICC prosecutors introduced a proper investigation into allegations of Israeli warfare crimes in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after years of power.
