Human rights lawyers are pursuing a probe via the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the recent assassination in the Gaza Strip of Saleh al-Ja’frawi, a prominent Palestinian journalist and social media personality.
Sara Segneri, a London-based international criminal law and human rights lawyer, announced through a statement on Tuesday that she and her colleagues had filed complaints and demands for investigations into the murder by multiple UN investigative bodies and special rapporteurs, as well as the ICC.
Palestinian officials have identified those behind the journalist’s targeted killing as a Tel Aviv-supported outfit affiliated with the Daghmash family.
Segneri described Ja’frawi as a “brave” and “dedicated” journalist and a “friend,” saying contact between her and the victim began after he started receiving threats and false accusations.
She next cited subsequent “attempts by social media platforms to censor and silence him due to his reporting on the atrocities in Palestine and documenting war crimes and other abuses.”
The lawyer also pointed to the victim’s accounts of facing kidnapping and torture before his murder, calling the atrocities “a grave injustice that demands accountability at the highest level.”
According to Segneri, Ja’frawi’s assassination was “not a random tragedy, but a targeted attack on a journalist – a young man dedicated to showing the world the truth of Gaza’s suffering.”
“Failing to hold the perpetrators accountable would send a chilling message that journalists can be hunted and killed with impunity, and that international law is meaningless in the face of raw violence.”
The assassination took place even though the regime had agreed to implement the first phase of a ceasefire plan aimed at ending the genocide.
Israel began providing such gangs with support last year as a means of exacerbating the deadly and destructive nature of its war of genocide against Gaza, which had begun in October 2023.
The most notorious of the gangs has been named as one also linked to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, which is run by Yasser Abu Shabab, who used to be imprisoned in Gaza.
As part of their atrocities, such gangs would loot direly needed aid, and kill the Palestinians gathering around the so-called aid distribution sites, which were backed by the United States and run by the Israeli regime.
[ SOURCE: AL JAZEERA and NEWS AGENCIES ]
