Prime Minister Yair Lapid condemned Qatari news network Al Jazeera Tuesday after it filed a lawsuit at the International Criminal Court against Israeli forces over the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
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"No one will interrogate IDF soldiers and no one will preach to us about morals of combat, certainly not the Al Jazeera network," Lapid said after the announcement.
Abu Akleh was killed on May 11 in an exchange of gunfire between Palestianina terorrists and IDF soldiers in Jenin, a known Islamic stronghold. The IDF conducted its own investigation, which said that the journalist might have been killed by an Israeli soldiers, albeit accidentally.
On May 11, Akleh, an American-Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist, was shot dead in the West Bank city of Jenin while covering an Israeli military operation in the area. Israeli authorities initially blamed Palestinian gunmen for the killing but then acknowledged that Israeli soldiers likely shot her, albeit accidentally.
.Al Jazeera said its legal team conducted its own "full and detailed investigation into the case" and claimed it unearthed new evidence that "clearly shows" that Akleh and her colleagues were fired at directly.
Last week, the news outlet aired a 38-minute-long documentary titled "The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh" that included the supposed new evidence and eyewitness accounts.
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
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