The case of the assassination of the Palestinian journalist went to the Hague Court.
The Palestinian groups and the family of “Shirin Abu Aqleh”, the Palestinian journalist Shahidah, have submitted the case of her assassination to the International Criminal Court.
Nasser Abu Bakr, the secretary of the Palestinian Journalists Association, and Jimmy Bomliha, the former head of the Journalists Union, and Antoine Abu Aqla, the brother of Shirin Abu Aqla, filed an official complaint against the Zionist regime in the International Criminal Court (located in The Hague).
According to “Ma’a” news website, a complaint against the Zionist regime regarding the martyrdom of “Shirin Abu Aqila” is also scheduled to be announced today at the International Justice Center for Palestinians in The Hague, during a press conference.
In this news conference, representatives from the International Federation of Journalists, the Syndicate of Journalists and the International Center for Justice for Palestinians and several members of the family of “Shirin Abu Aqleh” will be present. The conference is supposed to be held after the complaint is submitted to The Hague Court.
On September 14th, the Israeli army admitted for the first time that after the investigation, it came to the conclusion that Shirin Abu Aqila, a Palestinian journalist, may have been mistakenly shot dead by the soldiers of this regime.
In this connection, the legal experts of the United Nations emphasized in a joint statement last May that the murder of Shirin Abu Aqila, a Palestinian reporter of the Al Jazeera network, while wearing a journalist’s uniform, amounts to a war crime.
This statement was made by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on human rights in occupied Palestine in 1967, Maurice Tidball Baines, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Reem Al-Salem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, and Irene Khan, Special Rapporteur on the promotion of and support for the right to freedom of opinion and expression has been issued.
At the end of May, in an attack on the Jenin area in the north of the West Bank, the Zionist regime soldiers killed Abu Aqleh while he was wearing a reporter’s vest from a distance of 100 to 150 meters and wounded Ali Sammoudi, the producer of this network.
The assassination of Abu Aqla was not the first crime committed by the Zionist regime against Palestinian journalists, and according to the Palestinian Ministry of Information, 45 journalists have been martyred by the Zionist regime since the second Palestinian intifada in 2000.