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A store sells photos of the late Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh within the central West Financial institution city of Bethlehem on July 12. Al Jazeera referred to as on the Worldwide Prison Court docket to analyze on Tuesday. File Photograph by Debbie Hill/UPI | License Photo
Dec. 6 (UPI) — The Al Jazeera Media Community stated it formally filed a request to the Worldwide Prison Court docket to conduct an investigation and prosecution of these accountable for the dying of its journalist Shireen Abu Akleh within the occupied West Financial institution on Could 11.
Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian-American journalist, was protecting an Israeli navy raid on a refugee camp in Jenin when she was killed by gunfire. Israeli and United Nations investigations concluded that the bullets possible got here from Israeli navy gunfire, but nobody has been held accountable.
Al Jazeera cited its personal six-month investigation into the taking pictures dying, which included eyewitness testimony and video footage.
“It is not a single incident, it is a killing that’s a part of a wider sample that the prosecution must be investigating to establish those that are accountable for the killing, and to convey expenses towards them,” Rodney Dixon, an lawyer for Al Jazeera said.
Abu Akleh had labored as a correspondent for Al Jazeera for 25 years and was broadly recognized and revered within the area. She was carrying clothes figuring out her as a journalist when she was shot and killed.
Al Jazeera stated whereas the submitting is primarily concerning the dying of Abu Akleh, it also references the Israeli bombing of Al Jazeera’s workplaces in Gaza in Could 2021. The Israeli navy claimed that Hamas militants had used a part of the constructing as a defend to guard itself from being fired upon.
Present Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Protection Minister Benny Gantz pushed again against the filing, calling the taking pictures a “wartime occasion” that was “investigated within the deepest and most thorough means.”
“There isn’t any military that acts as morally in wartime because the [Israel Defense Forces] and I wish to emphasize my and the complete system’s full backing for the commanders and troopers who defend the residents of Israel,” Gantz stated.