Al Jazeera to send a legal team to ICC over Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder

Al Jazeera to send a legal team to ICC over Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder

Al Jazeera Media Network has doled out a legitimate group to allude to the killing of its columnist Shireen Abu Akleh to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

The organization said in an explanation on Thursday that it has shaped a worldwide alliance that comprises its lawful group alongside global specialists, and is setting up a dossier on the homicide of Abu Akleh for accommodation to the ICC examiner.

After the killing of Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by Israel powers on May 11 close to the Jenin exile camp in the involved West Bank, the ICC accommodation will likewise incorporate the Israeli besieging “and absolute annihilation” of Al Jazeera’s office in Gaza in May 2021, and “the constant affectations and assaults” on Al Jazeera columnists working in the involved Palestinian domains.

The Al Jazeera network proclamation said the killing or actual attack on columnists working in disaster areas or involved regions is an atrocity under Article 8 of the International Criminal Court’s sanction.

“Al Jazeera Media Network censures the killing of our partner Shireen Abu Akleh, who worked with the Network for a very long time as an expert columnist covering the continuous clash in the involved Palestinian regions,” the organization said in a proclamation.

“The Network promises to follow each way to accomplish equity for Shireen, and guarantee those answerable for her killing are dealt with and considered responsible in all global equity and legitimate stages and courts.”

Prior on Thursday, the Palestinian Authority declared the aftereffects of an examination concerning the killing of Palestinian-American Abu Akleh that showed Israeli powers intentionally shot and killed the veteran journalist.

Addressing journalists in the involved West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian Attorney General Akram al-Khatib said that Abu Akleh, 51, was hit with a shield puncturing projectile.

The writer was wearing a protective cap and a vest that was plainly set apart with “PRESS”, the principal legal officer said, and Israeli “occupation powers … had discharged a slug that hit columnist Shireen Abu Akleh straightforwardly in her mind” while she was endeavoring to get away.

Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s envoy to the United Nations, told a gathering of the UN Security Council on Thursday that the killing of Abu Akleh was “not a misstep”.

“Shireen’s killing is the story, a similar story she was telling. The thing that matters is that this time the world knew the person in question,” Mansour said.

“We are not being killed as a result of what we do, but since of what our identity is. We are not being killed unintentionally, however as a feature of a fantastic plan to ensure we as a whole see nobody is protected so we as a whole live with dread in our souls and give up,” he said.

“On the off chance that you are a Palestinian, you are a genuine objective.”

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