THE HAGUE – On Wednesday, The office of
International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Chief Prosecutor, Karim Ahmad Khan stated
that he will review attacks that killed journalists in the war on the Gaza
Strip as a part of the investigation into allegations of crimes in the strip,
New York Times reported.
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“The Prosecutor has previously underlined his
concern about the increasing number of attacks on journalists globally and
emphasized that such attacks may constitute Rome Statute crimes,” Khan’s office
stated.
Under international humanitarian law and the
Rome Statute, journalists are protected as civilians. However, according to
data from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), since the start of
Israel's war on the strip, Israel has killed 72 Palestinian journalists and
media workers.
Furthermore, Reporters without Borders (RWB)
has filed two complaints with the court over the past 10 weeks, calling on the
court to investigate and prosecute cases of journalists who were killed in the
Israeli war on the strip.
In RWB's first complaint, filed in October
2023, it said that eight Palestinian journalists had been killed by attacks
that had caused disproportionate harm to civilians. In the second complaint,
filed in December 2023, it said that seven Palestinian reporters who were
killed might have been targeted by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
ICC, which was formed by the Rome Statute two
decades ago to investigate, prosecute and try people accused of war crimes,
genocide and other atrocities, is more broadly looking into allegations of war
crimes by Israel in the strip and the Occupied West Bank.
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