no one forgets Program of Abu Aqleh. And that’s why Al Jazeera has filed a lawsuit against Israel before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for him murder of Palestinian journalist last May. The lawsuit is based on new evidence which, according to the Qatari news network, confirms that the israeli forces They shot directly at Abu Aqleh. “The claim that Shirin was mistakenly killed in an exchange of fire is completely unfounded,” the network said in a statement. From Israel, the interim prime minister Yair Lapid has assured that “no one will investigate the soldiers of our army”.
It’s been almost seven months since the Palestinian-American journalist Shirin Abu Aqleh was shot dead while covering a military raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Since then, “Al Jazeera’s legal team has conducted a full and detailed investigation of the case,” the statement said, “and has discovered new evidence based on various stories from eyewitnesses, the examination of multiple elements of video images and forensic evidence related to the case”. Given these new results, he presented the case this Tuesday in the court based in Hague.
Relying on the new evidence, Al Jazeera has distanced itself from the conclusions of the Israeli investigations into the death of the journalist. “Without a doubt, there were no shots in the area where Shirin was, apart from the shots from the Israeli Occupation Forces directed directly at her”, the Qatar-based news network has stated. The outlet sees his murder as part of a campaign deliberate “to attack and silence Al Jazeera”. For this reason, the file focuses mainly on the murder of Abu Aqleh, although it will also include the bombing of the chain’s offices in the Gaza Strip during the May 2021 Israeli offensive that killed more than 250 people.
israeli reaction
“The decisions of the International Criminal Court stipulate that those responsible are investigated and prosecuted; otherwise they have the same responsibility that if they were the ones who opened fire”, he said Rodney Dixon KC, Al Jazeera’s lawyer at a press conference in The Hague. The ICC has power to judge individualsso that it could eventually prosecute certain Israeli leaders.
In Tel Aviv, however, its leaders appear to be quiet. They see in the lawsuit one more gesture to increase international pressure on Israel over the assassination of Abu Aqleh. Despite the multiple independent investigations that accuse the Jewish State of being guilty, so far they have not reported any consequences. Even so, the Israeli political class has not been slow to speak out. “No one will investigate the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces or will preach morality in war and much less Al Jazeera ”, has cried the still prime minister Yair Lapid in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament.
the controversial Itamar Ben GvirMinister of National Security incominghas crossed out the chain of “anti-Semite y misleading” and has asked that she be “expelled from the country today”. But Al Jazeera remains steadfast in “its commitment to achieve justice for Shirin and explore all avenues to ensure that those responsible are held accountable and brought to justice,” their statement concluded.