Al Jazeera files complaint at ICC over Abu Akleh killing

Al Jazeera filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court against members of the IDF over the death of American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot and killed during an IDF operation in the West Bank in May, the network announced on Tuesday.

The complaint comes in the middle of the ICC’s high-profile annual meeting of its Assembly of State Parties which govern it and formulate its budget.

In March 2021, then-ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda opened a full criminal investigation against Israelis and Palestinians relating to the 2014 Gaza War, the 2018 Gaza border confrontations and against the Israeli settlement enterprise.

This latest complaint will now become part of that broader file since only the ICC prosecutor, and not any third party, can decide whether to proceed with criminal charges.

However, current ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan has not taken any public action on