The Qatari television channel Al Jazeera announced on Tuesday December 6 that it had submitted a file to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) incriminating the Israeli army for the death of its Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, killed in May.
The channel says material passed to the ICC highlights "
new evidence and video footage clearly showing that Shireen Abu Akleh and his colleagues were fired upon directly by Israeli occupation forces
" on May 11.
That day, the star journalist of Al Jazeera was killed by a bullet in the head during an Israeli army raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank.
She was equipped with a bulletproof vest marked "
press
" and a helmet.
"
The Israeli authorities' claim that Shireen was mistakenly killed in an exchange of fire is completely unfounded
," the channel added.
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An AFP journalist in The Hague saw a lawyer representing Al Jazeera enter the ICC headquarters to submit the file.
The Court has no obligation to take up the case.
The Israeli army, which has occupied the West Bank since 1967, first acknowledged in September that there was
a "strong possibility
" that Shireen Abu Akleh, who held Palestinian and American citizenship, had been killed by the Israeli army.
one of his soldiers.
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