The community has decried Israel’s try and ‘evade prison accountability’ for the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
Al Jazeera has denounced the findings of the Israeli army’s inquiry into the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, saying it was “an try by the Israeli Occupation Forces to evade the prison accountability” for the deadly taking pictures of the veteran journalist.
The Israeli military admitted on Monday for the primary time that one in every of its troopers had possible shot the Al Jazeera journalist “by chance” and added that it might not be launching a prison investigation into her killing that brought about world outrage.
“Al Jazeera Media Community denounces the findings of this investigation and stresses that this elusive admission is nothing however an try from the IOF to evade the prison accountability for the killing of Shireen, which has been confirmed by quite a few unbiased and worldwide investigations,” the Qatar-based community mentioned in a press release on Monday.
“Al Jazeera condemns the Israeli Occupation Forces’ reluctance to explicitly admit their crime and makes an attempt to evade the prosecution of the perpetrators,” the assertion learn.
The community demanded that “an unbiased worldwide physique investigates the assassination of Abu Akleh to attain justice for her, her household, and fellow journalists world wide”.
The Doha-based community has additionally referred Abu Akleh’s case to the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) on the Hague.
The 51-year-old was killed on Could 11 whereas masking an Israeli incursion within the occupied West Financial institution metropolis of Jenin, regardless of sporting a helmet and flak jacket clearly marked “PRESS”.
Al Jazeera has repeatedly decried Abu Akleh’s killing, and has beforehand mentioned she was focused with stay hearth.
Al Jazeera and a number of other different inquiries by main human rights teams and media organisations have corroborated witness accounts that Abu Akleh was shot by Israeli forces.
Detailed investigations by the United Nations, the Palestinian Authority, and a number of media shops, together with CNN and The Related Press information company, discovered that Abu Akleh was definitively shot by Israeli hearth and that there have been no Palestinian fighters on the scene when she was killed – debunking Israeli claims.
In its assertion, Al Jazeera mentioned it “renews its pledge to help Shireen’s household and colleagues world wide and continues to name on all media, press freedom and worldwide human rights organisations to amplify their calls for to make sure all of the perpetrators be held accountable”.
Palestinian officers, human rights campaigners, and the household of Abu Akleh have additionally criticised the Israeli army investigation.