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Case to be filed at ICC over killing of Al Jazeera journalists
The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) said they will file a joint complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the killing of four Al Jazeera journalists and two freelancers in an Israeli air strike on Sunday.
The Israeli army confirmed the killing of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif was deliberate, repeating accusations used in the killings of more than 220 journalists since October 2023, HRF said in a statement.
HRF’s investigation traces the chain of command from Netanyahu to senior Israeli army figures, including air force and intelligence commanders.
PCHR contributed documentation of other Al Jazeera journalists killed in targeted attacks following public smear campaigns.
The submission accuses those named of war crimes and genocide, calling for arrest warrants and for all journalist killings in Gaza to be included in the ICC’s Palestine investigation.
“The evidence is there. The legal foundation is unshakable. The jurisdiction is established beyond question. What remains is for the International Criminal Court to move past statements of ‘grave concern’ and take the decisive step that justice demands: act,” HRF added.
‘Israel cannot shut up Gaza’: Israeli commentator
Gideon Levy, a journalist and columnist for Israeli news outlet Haaretz, has spoken about the Israeli army’s targeted killing of the Al Jazeera team in Gaza, including journalist Anas al-Sharif.
Levy called Anas a “courageous journalist who enabled us to see what was going on in Gaza” and said his killing follows a longstanding pattern of Israel targeting journalists whose coverage it is threatened by.
“Ever since the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin [in the occupied West Bank], you see that journalists are targeted,” Levy said. “It was true about Shireen Abu Akleh, even though the Israeli army denied it at first, as it usually does. It’s true until this very moment. The figures tell us the whole story, and the figures are horrifying.”
However, Levy said the killings cannot stop the world from seeing the reality on the ground in Gaza.
“Israel cannot shut up Gaza,” he said. “So, even if this is the intention, Gaza will not be less covered now because of those killings. Gaza is becoming such a horrible place that even Netanyahu cannot prevent the world from knowing."
