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Al Jazeera TV to refer killing of its journalist to ICC

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO – A Palestinian woman snaps photos at the site where Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in an Israeli raid. Jenin is in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. May 17, 2022. Picture taken May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta

CAIRO, Reuters – Qatar’s Al Jazeera TV Network has announced that it will refer the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh (journalist) to the International Criminal Court (ICC). It made this announcement in a televised speech on Thursday.

Abu Akleh was a well-known Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist who was killed in an Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank.

Al Jazeera will have its legal team prepare a file about the murder of Abu Akleh and international legal experts to send it to the ICC.

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