(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) BRUSSELS, May 11 (KUNA) -- The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Wednesday 'strongly condemned' the latest targeted killing of a Palestinian media worker and has pledged to add the murder to the case lodged at the International Criminal Court (ICC) which details the systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists by Israeli army.
Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqleh was shot dead by the Israeli army while covering a raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early today, the IFJ said in a statement.
Abu Aqleh was one of Al-Jazeera's first field correspondents, joining the network in 1997. She was hit by a bullet while covering Israeli raids in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger said: 'While the full details of this horrific murder are still emerging, testimony from journalists who were with her when she was killed point towards this being another deliberate and systematic targeting of a journalist.'
'Yet again journalists, wearing press vests, clearly identified were targeted by Israeli snipers. They were not alongside demonstrators, they were not a threat - they have been targeted to prevent them bearing witness and telling the truth about the Israeli action in Jenin,' he noted.
Bellanger said the IFJ will seek to add this case to the ICC complaint submitted by the IFJ, detailing such systematic targeting.
'If we demand justice for the Russian targeting of Ukrainian journalists we must demand an end to, and justice for, Israeli targeting and killings of Palestinian journalists,' he stressed.
The IFJ has recently submitted a case to the ICC alleging that Israelآ's systematic targeting of journalists working in Palestine and its failure to properly investigate killings of media workers amount to war crimes.
The Brussels-based IFJ represents around 600,000 journalists in accross 146 countries worldwide. (end)
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