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we own a state so that we would live with fear in the atlanta hawks emotional scenes ending un security council as the palestinian ambassador costs for justice for sharing an old palestinian victims of these really occupation. ah, this is al jazeera ally from doha. i'm fully back people also coming up. do you know that there are kids right? your little kid didn't know how to defend himself. parents against texas police of a slow response to tuesday's shooting that left 19 school children and 2 teachers dead and decades of fighting on the gambia synagogue border escalades, forcing thousands of people to flee. ah,

thank you for joining us. al jazeera jordan is sharina, blackly was shot by israeli forces with the intent to kill her at the conclusion of a palestinian investigation into a killing in the occupied west bank. on may 11th, it found she was hit by an armor piercing bullets. neither abraham has the details from ramallah. the is really army, deliberately targeted veteran. i just eat a journalist cheating a ball. claire. this is the mean finding of the palestinian public prosecutor's investigation into the killing. in a brusque conference in the presidential headquarters in the occupied westbank, the prosecutor explained how shitty was targeted while trying to escape a barrage of bullets. i'm not either. it's been proven conclusively that the targeting of shewn ugly and the group of dundas by the israeli occupation forces was direct and deliberate. that has been proved by the type of the rifle a rogue. hm. and you 14 and the type of the bullet known as appears in bullet stuff . the investigation confirmed there was no firing from the palestinian side at the

time. shooting was killed. the bullet is a key evidence of the case. california official have refused to hand it over to the israeli authorities. the palestinian authority won't even release the picture of the bullet saying israel will try to use it to manipulate track. that mistrust is why the palestinian authority has refused a joint investigation with israel saying it's can't trust israel to investigate itself. these really narrative changed several time since judy was shot. these really are mistress that it can't. that's her mind if she was killed by palestinians or by israeli forces. they just either media network has formed the legal team to defer shootings file to the international criminal court. i see see, earlier this week the palestinian foreign ministry submitted the file of shootings killing to the high tribunal whole thing the isis he's prosecutor, would investigate the case. and we will continue to resort to all international

forms. we will not abandon a single right of the palestinian people. we will present all the document to the international court, including this significant report. and we have already referred several documents to the international criminal court. the palestinian investigation report is the latest addition to witnesses accounts and several investigations confirming that shooting was deliberately targeted. it's saying here as more prove as more evidence that if and when i see decide to investigate the case that they will have more witnesses. they will have more finding, but the palestinians here are hoping that with the international pressure, with the media attention to this case that the i to see will indeed investigate should ins killing as a war crime. many here say that she is not the 1st victim of these really occupation and fear she won't be the last. they won't accountability, but fear. it's a far fetched expectation. neither but him al jazeera the occupied westbank. and

there were emotional scenes that the un security council meeting in new york. it's for offense. the killing of sharina block li christian for me has more the security council held its monthly meeting on the situation in the middle east. and clearly the most significant development in that time has been the killing of serene lockley as nearly every speaker mentioned her death and called for an investigation into exactly what happened. but many speakers, including the us, middle east envoy toward venice law and put her death in the context of what palestinians go through on a daily basis. what venice long called a familiar pattern of daily violence that includes arm clashes and settlement expansion, evictions and demolition. 10 palestinians have been killed since the last meeting of the security council, including a woman and a child, and for israel, these were also killed during that time,

which was also condemned by many speakers. but what dreams, death makes clear as the palestinian ambassador riyadh months were pointed out, is the lack of recourse for palestinians when journalists aid workers and children are killed without repercussions. yeah. i wouldn't want to take you not to a live event in london, where lawyers representing a group of human rights in journalists, organizations accusing israel of systematically targeting, in general, is not holding a news conference. they've added al jazeera jim mystery novel to their ongoing case . at the international criminal court lead listening findings and so correlations fall to hold. israel forces to account for what appears to be a policy of targeting, maiming and killing journalists and the destruction of civilian media. infrastructure in palestine. a coalition legal work leg 1st to communications. the united nations, and in april 2022, the following months of preparation investigation, we presented

a complaint to the international criminal court in respect of israel alleged policy of targeting journalists. the april complaint detail, the systematic targeting of student journalists on behalf of 4 named victims. i'm it problem to thank you. latasha was ominous, and the doubt at fear were killed or maimed by israeli snipers. while covering demonstrations in data. all are clearly marked with am all had clear mark precipice at the time they were shot in addition or complaint. also details the talk thing and bombing of the sure of now, john us media towers into the city in may 2021. you'll hear more about this from my colleague jennifer. the need for legal action can be seen in the numbers. according to reports, at least 50 journalists, mostly palestinians been killed by israeli fire in the west bank since 2000. most

of the cases involved policy and journalist, but also do include foreign journalists. no one, no one has been held to account for these very means or death for attacks. the patent of it's really unfortunate attacking journalist is not new. but again, on 11th of may, to algebra, journalists were shot one fatally sharina clay, a well known policy and american tv journalist was killed while covering israeli army rates in the city of janine holly, who was president when sheridan was killed, was shot in the shoulder. and hospitalized. we and our coalition honored to be able to announce today that sherman's brother carrick, anton, actually, and elisa moody on the 100 a shops who witnessed the attack have provided our group with the authority and instructions to submit a new complaint to the special criminal court about the circumstances surrounding showings deck an alley shooting on the 11th of may. ali,

along with other witnesses of providing coalition, with crucial eye witness testimony. with regard to ali shooting and the death assuring. there are strong ground to believe that sharina was killed and he was shot by israeli armed forces. both join a long list of journalists, targeted by the israeli armed forces in the occupied palestinian territory. this new complaint on behalf of alli ensuring follows on april 2022 submission to the i, c. c, which requested the prosecutor launch and investigation into the system to targeting maiming and killing of journalists and the destruction of media infrastructure. sure, he was killed only days after the cc prosecutor acknowledge receipt of our 1st complaints . israel has enjoyed a devastating impunity against accountability for the actions of his armed forces and is repeatedly demonstrated that it is a bad faith investigator. it has not managed to hold anyone to account for the 10s

of public opinion journalists have been killed or maimed so far. crucially, on the 5th of february 2021, the international criminal court ruled that criminal jurisdiction extended to the situation in palestine and the territory territorial scope covered allegations i kept in gaza and the west bank, including easter islam. this presents for the 1st time a real opportunity for accountability of israeli alleged policy of toxic journalists and could lead to formal in a formal investigation by the i c, prosecutor, and potential prosecutions of the perpetrators. we welcome al jazeera own initiative to provide a complaint galaxy c as a media institution, which will show will add forth the complaint we submitted in april and a new complaint on behalf of the family of serene and allie on chester. as individuals, i guess for these will speak more about the soon shrink family and allie have trusted us to bring what happened to them to the attention of the special criminal

court. unto the world. sharing is not anonymous. she was one of us. she dedicated her life to the, to one of the most important principles in democracy. freedom of speech as a journalist, showings working sure that the world knew what was happening in palestine. journalists like hearing and allie, a crucial in holding government, violate international law to accounts. israel belligerent and excessive use of force has, let's irreversible damage, and the killing of innocent journalists. this can no longer be allowed to continue . we are determined in our legal work to reverse israel on going impunity. it could not be a more important time the now for the i c, c, and the international community to send a clear signal to states that further their own interest or criminal act, that they will not have impunity and will instead be strictly held to account. i'll be shortly introducing us speakers to you in turn, but before we do that,

we will be useful for you to see some of our allegations in pictorial form. and we provide a short video and for you to watch which highlight some of the evidence that's readily available and about the victims in our original complaint. i warn you that some of the images are graphic and some of the parts of the video are cited because we've, we've chosen not to add anything to the videos and leave them in the wrong form. so whether it's natural sound that's there and why there's no natural sounded silence . if we could show the video please ah ah, i had applied

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evidence is not the problem. we have ample evidence. you can see from the video clips how compelling some of the video clips all we chose to blood, the faces of potential suspects in the case. but we have the footage which shows that faces the evidence is not the problem. the problem is holding is also a count, israel holding and the instructional community holding his roster, count in the faith in doing that. and we thought we'd also play a few words from sharina as you saw the end of that clip. so she could posthumously explain her role and what she was doing and i'd like to introduce jennifer robinson . jennifer's an instructional barrow struck out history chambers and instructed to act in r i c. c. complaint. jennifer will discuss the legal strategies for accountability in response to the targeting of policy and journalists, including our recent i. c. c. complaint and provide an overview of our client of our clients cases. jensen. thank you, ty ivan. good morning,

everyone. on behalf of myself, my colleague talked to tatiana it, well, he's the head of our daddy st international team. we welcome you to chambers this morning and thank you off coming. it's an honor and a privilege for us to be instructed to represent you in abu clay. alyssa, moody and shudder has had canstio. we pay tribute to sharina barkley and her work in a world where there are too few prominent women journalists. and we thank her brave family for entrusting us for taking her case to the i. c. c. we also pay tribute to alice moody, who was shot and seriously injured in the same incident and shatter harness. here. he was shot at and witnessed the killing. they survived and incredibly traumatic event, and we want to ensure that through our international advocacy and our work, that their cases also received the international intention that they deserve. we will now be joining all of these journalists as victims. and the complaint that we

fall to the icpc in april about the targeting of palestinian journalists. fi, israeli forces that complain as tire mentioned, was originally filed on behalf of 4 name journalists. i'm at abu hassan. yes, i'm atocha was a and middle each of them were killed or maimed by israeli snipers. while reporting all of these journalists, luxury not blocking, were shot while clearly wearing marked precipice and press helmets. a complaint also details the deliberate targeting embalming of media infrastructure and gaza in may 2021. as we warned and i, i see a complaint back in april. the attacks on palestinian journalist by these rally defense force have been widespread and systematic. and the threat of it ongoing attacks against journalists is cleo. sadly, showing a bu close murder is a clear demonstration of the ongoing threat posed journalists and palestinian

journalists reporting in the occupied territories and an urgent need to address impunity for these attacks. this is precisely what our i c c complaint sets out to do to ensure those who are responsible held accountable. and this is why we submit that the i c. c prosecutor should investigate and prosecute who we apologies for just joining us there. we've been watching a news conference out of london by lawyers working on the international criminal court case filed over the systematic targeting of time is sunday, monday. unless they seem to be having a few technical issues that this news conference is coming after the killing. of course of our county colleges here is assuring creek by israeli forces in the

occupied west bank on may 11th b i. c. c. case which is being talked about here at this news conference was launch in april 2022. and sharina name has now been added to the list of, of the names of journalists killed by israel. and the legal submissions have been sent to the i. c. c. alleging that israel systematically targets journalist working in palestine and its failure to promptly investigate killings of media workers, amount to war crimes. the legal team talking has said they need to be legal action in these cases. and this legal action can be seen in the numbers, at least 50 palestinian journalists have been killed by israeli forces since 2000. and no one has been held accountable. one of the lawyers is saying that israel has enjoyed a devastating improve t and it's a bad faith investigator. not parallel to this, the al jazeera media network has also assigned

a legal team to refer that killing of serene ab lockley. o i. c. i to the international criminal court and also these really bombing of its offices in gaza. let's continue to listen to the news conference in london. prosecutor must investigate our compliance and prosecute those responsible to send a clear message. not just to the israeli forces in government, but to all governments that targeting journalists is a crime and journalist a not fair game. today, i want to cover 3 brief points in relation to our legal work. first provides a short bit of background about our work with the i c, j pay me, i have j, p j. s a little bit about our international legal strategy and some information about our clients, the legal case, and next steps. we 1st began working on this back in 2019 with the i have j, the targeting of journalists in the context of om conflict is an increasing global trend. and one that we've sadly seen in the context of the conflict in the ukraine journalist play an essential role at the front lines,

providing us an objective account of what's happening on the frontline and documenting war crimes and human rights abuse. sadly, this means that this is also why journalists become a target for journals for governments, for governments who wish to hide the truth and to cover up war crimes and enable impunity. this has long been a problem for palestinian journalists, the journalist, local and international union. the palestine journalist syndicate and international federation of journalists has long and for many years been condemning and taught the targeting and killing of palestinian journalists and the broader discrimination and obstacles they face in doing their work as journalists on that front line. to give a brief overview of the issue, the extent of the problem and what prompted our work. i want to give you some facts back in 2018. a year when it was 2019 a un commission of inquiry into the 2018 protests found that 2 journalists, 2 of our clients were killed by wearing precipice and 39. others were injured by

liven ammunition. the following year and 2019, the palestinian journalists indicate reported that 200 journalists had been physically attacked and dozens more were injured by rubber coated bullets and live ammunition. and yet in response to these attacks on palestinian journalists, there were no investigations and no prosecutions. no one has been held accountable, and as a result of that, impunity, the attacks continue when we commenced our work in 2018. our aim was to work with the unions, victim journalists, and their brave families. to fall international complaints, complaints and conduct international advocacy to both the u. n. and to the i c. c. to highlight the need to end this. impunity and to protect the important work of journalists on the front line. we also wanted to make clear the legal position, and i do so today. the deliberate targeting of journalists is in all situations, a gray violation of the right to life and international human rights law. and in

situations of armed conflict, that includes occupation, a violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime. as civilians in on conflict journalists are not legitimate targets. the deliberate tardy of journalists is not just a war crime, but in our view, it's a war crime to cover up other war crimes, to cover up and prevent reporting on conflict and on war crimes themselves. in this work, we also wanted to make sure that we raise the targeting of freelance journalist in particular those who were and those were work for small low media organizations too often they had targeted without the benefit of large international media organizations to do advocacy on their behalf so sadly, the recent killing of sri nobela clay shows that working for a large international media organization provides no protection for journalists in working with the i have j, we identified the 4 1st cases which we believe i emblematic of the broader problem

of targeting of journalists in palestine, you've seen on the video, those for journalists, the 1st 2 were killed during the 2018 protests. i'm a double hussein, a 24 year old journalist who was fatally shot in the abdomen by an idea of sniper. he'd been taking photographs the demonstrations and was where it clearly wearing a blue helmet and oppress vest. jasa natasha was a 30 year old photographer and media company ana who had also been wearing a blue press fest when he was shot and lately wounded. while filming demonstrations for a documentary, both of their cases were investigated and highlighted by the un commission of inquiry in 2019, which concluded that they were both killed while wearing precipice. the you and inquire also concluded that were reasonable grounds to believe that israeli snipers had shot them intentionally. i client also include 2 journalists who are maimed and lately targeted. martha manet is

a 33 year old journalist photographer who was shot in the i in 2019, by the idea if, while wearing a bullet proof vests with a press logo and again a press helmet. he had to have multiple surgeries to remove the shrapnel from his eye and to infect, to remove his eye. but he continues to suffer physically and psychologically, and hasn't been able to continue his work or protect and, and provide for his family. he made a police report to palestinian authorities in bethlehem. these railey authorities never asked him for a statement in this vein nor investigation to our knowledge. net sta is a 53 year old freelance journalist. he was shot in 2015 with a rubber bullet in the eye while filming the soldier who shot him. he'd be again, he'd been wearing his precipice and a helmet. he suffered nervous atrophy, loss of vision, and required continuing treatment. after there was no criminal investigation, he did sake reparations, and there is rarely court to civil climb to sate compensation for the shooting. but

these really courts determined that they had immunity from that suit. his work continues, but at great risk he was shot again in 2021. these 2 cases demonstrate the problem that we're identifying in our complaint, which is that immense difficulty for palestinian journalists, victims to sate reparations and justice in the israeli courts. and this is why we say the i c. c. complaint is so necessary. we are instructed by each of the journalists who were targeted or on behalf of their brave family members. we pay tribute to each of them and to their families for taking action to try to protect other journalists. we also pay tribute to the work of the unions who really initiated this work. the palestinian journalist syndicate and the international federation of journalists for their invariably invaluable support for palestinian journalists and media workers and for their families to enable this work to take place. as i have mentioned, our 1st line of international advocacy was to make a u. a. u and complaint, the un special term at the end of 2020 to that complaint we have had no response.

after the i say say prosecutor announced her investigation in early 2021. we started working with the i c. j paid to put together our i, c. c, compliant on behalf of those for journalists. soon afterwards, we saw the targeting did the deliberate targeting and bombing of the towers in garza, in may 2021. and we added that targeting to our camp to the i c se complaint. this way, we have been instructed by sharina blacklist family along with the other journalists targeted in that incident to add them to our i. c compliant. and i brought a international advocacy just briefly on the icy se complaint. it was fought under article 15 of the rome statute, requesting that the prosecutor kareem con, opened an investigation under article $53.00 of the statute of complaint, alleges various war crimes under article 8. and crimes against humanity on the basis of the wide spread and systematic nature of the targeting of palestinian journalists. we submit that these complaints are admissible because of the repeated

failure of these rarely authorities to properly investigate and prosecute those responsible. and because of the gravity of their offenses, in terms of next steps, we will soon be adding sharina blacklist cases. and the other cases to our i c. c. complaint. it's important to recognize that you and an international community has long known about this problem. we want to highlight to day the cumulative effect of the ongoing impunity for his rally forces. and that is the continuing attack on journalists. action must be taken to ensure that israel observes its international obligations under international human rights law and international humanitarian law . we say that it's important because not just because sharon barclays k of of her case, which is of course high profile, but it is not a one off. there is a repeated targeting a pattern of targeting of journalists. and this.