CAIRO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Al Jazeera is preparing a legal document to be submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over what it calls an "assassination". Qatar TV said on Saturday that it was a photographer in Gaza.
Photographer Samir Abu Daqqa was killed in a drone strike on Friday while he was covering an earlier ** incident on a school used as a school. According to the Qatar Broadcasting Corporation, shelters are provided for displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to Al Jazeera, Israeli drones fired missiles at the school, killing Abudaka. Reuters could not confirm the details of the incident.
The network has set up a joint working group, made up of its international legal team and international legal experts, who will work together to initiate the process of preparing a comprehensive document to be submitted to the court's prosecutor," Al Jazeera said in a statement.
The legal document will also include regular attacks and incitement against the network's staff working and operating in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. ”
Commenting on the incident in a statement, the Israeli army said it had "never done and never will" done so. Deliberately targeting journalists. It also said there was "inherent risk" in remaining in an active combat zone during the firefight.
The International Criminal Court has opened an investigation into any alleged crimes committed in the Palestinian territories and by Palestinians in the territory of Israel.
In 2021, after the Palestinian Authority signed a contract with the International Court of Justice in 2015 and granted UN observer state status, ICC judges ruled that the court had jurisdiction.
Israel does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over the Palestinian territories and has previously refused to cooperate with the Court.
The ICC Prosecutor's Office does not usually comment on the details of ongoing investigations.
The 10-week war in Gaza has hit journalists hard, with at least 64 journalists and **workers killed, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday.
The Committee to Protect Journalists called on international authorities to "conduct an independent investigation into the attacks and hold the perpetrators accountable".
A Reuters investigation found that on October 13, an Israeli tank crew fired two shells in quick succession from Israel in Lebanon, killing Reuters visual journalist Issam Abdallah and wounding six journalists while the journalists were filming cross-border shelling.
The Israeli military said the incident took place in an active war zone and is under scrutiny.