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Al Jazeera TV to refer killing of its journalist to ICC - statement

Al Jazeera ICC Abu Akleh Shireen Abu Akleh International Criminal Court Qatar

FILE PHOTO: A Palestinian woman takes pictures at the scene where Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead during an Israeli raid, in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 17, 2022. Picture taken May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta

Qatar's Al Jazeera TV Network will refer the killing of its journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), it said in a televised statement on Thursday.

Abu Akleh, a prominent Palestinian-American Al Jazeera reporter, was shot dead during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on May 11.

Al Jazeera's legal team alongside international legal experts will prepare a file on the killing of Abu Akleh to refer it to the ICC.

(Reporting by Moaz Abd-Alaziz; Writing by Mahmoud Mourad; editing by Diane Craft)

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