Evidence of a deliberate crime? According to the lawyers of the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel, this is what the USB key that they handed over on Tuesday, December 6, to the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) would contain. Testimonies and new videos from May 11, 2022, the day Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head while covering a raid by Israeli forces in Jenin in the West Bank, are now available. possession of the court. ‘No one will investigate IDF soldiers and no one will preach morality to us in war, certainly not Al-Jazeera’immediately responded Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
If, in September, Israel admitted that one of its soldiers had “accidentally” killed the reporter, master Rodney Dixon affirms, on the contrary, that this one was deliberately targeted. It would therefore be a war crime, said the lawyer for the Qatari channel, coupled with a crime against humanity, because the name of Shireen Abu Akleh is added to a long list of Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli forces. Al-Jazeera’s lawyers asked the prosecutor to trace the chain of command to the highest officials, during a press conference organized in The Hague, on the sidelines of the annual meeting of States Parties to the ICC.
Since the tragedy of May 11, the star journalist of pan-Arab television has embodied the demand for justice from all of Palestinian society. On Monday, before the assembly of 123 member states, Riyad Al-Maliki, the Palestinian foreign minister, affirmed that “Shireen is another victim of the exceptional impunity enjoyed by Israel”. To the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, who, during a trip to Ukraine in the spring, declared that the whole country was a vast ” crime scene “the head of Palestinian diplomacy said that “Palestine is the scene of an ongoing crime”.
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Faced with the political and financial support displayed, in particular by Western states, for the ICC investigation into Ukraine, the Minister questioned: “Why is the situation in Palestine not getting attention and resources? (…) Why is access to the Court limited to Palestinian victims while the door to the Court is wide open to others? » One of the responses could be the opposition of several states to any intervention by the ICC in the Israeli-Palestinian case, including the United States. “The International Criminal Court must focus on its main mission”said a spokesman for the State Department, a “court of last resort to punish and deter heinous crimes”.
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