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Al Jazeera stated Tuesday it can submit a case to the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) over the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot within the head whereas masking an Israeli raid in Jenin within the occupied West Financial institution in Could.
“Al Jazeera’s authorized staff has carried out a full and detailed investigation into the case and unearthed new proof based mostly on a number of eyewitness accounts, the examination of a number of objects of video footage, and forensic proof pertaining to the case,” Al Jazeera stated in a press release.
The community claims new proof and video present the Palestinian-American journalist and her colleagues had been immediately fired at in a “deliberate killing” by what Al Jazeera referred to as Israeli occupation forces, a declare which Israel has repeatedly denied.
Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid Tuesday repeated a long-standing rejection that any outdoors authority would examine Israel Protection Forces troops.
“Nobody will examine IDF troopers and nobody will preach to us about morals in warfare, actually not Al Jazeera,” Lapid stated.
The IDF referred CNN questions in regards to the ICC case to the Prime Minister’s Workplace and Ministry of Overseas Affairs, which declined to remark.
In September, the IDF admitted there’s a “excessive risk” Abu Akleh was “by accident” shot and killed by Israeli fireplace geared toward “suspects recognized as armed Palestinian gunmen throughout an change of fireplace.”
The IDF stated on the time the Israeli army didn’t intend to pursue felony costs or prosecutions of any of the troopers concerned.
A CNN investigation revealed two weeks after Abu Akleh was killed recommended that the deadly shot got here from a place the place IDF troops are identified to have been positioned. The sample of gunfire on a tree behind the place she was standing on the time recommended that the gunfire was focused relatively than indiscriminate, an professional instructed CNN.
The CNN investigation unearthed proof — together with two movies of the scene of the taking pictures — suggesting that there was no energetic fight, nor any Palestinian militants, close to Abu Akleh within the moments main as much as her demise.
She was sporting a flak jacket figuring out her as press on the time she was killed.
Al Jazeera stated Tuesday: “The declare by the Israeli authorities that Shireen was killed by mistake in an change of fireplace is totally unfounded. The proof introduced to the Workplace of the Prosecutor (OTP) confirms, with none doubt, that there was no firing within the space the place Shireen was, aside from the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) taking pictures immediately at her.”
“The IOF inquiry that discovered there was no suspicion of any crime being dedicated is solely undermined by the out there proof which has now been offered to the OTP. The proof reveals that this deliberate killing was a part of a wider marketing campaign to focus on and silence Al Jazeera,” the community added.
Abu Akleh’s household additionally submitted an official grievance to the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) earlier this 12 months to demand justice for her demise, Al Jazeera reported.
CNN has contacted the ICC to verify in the event that they acquired the case.