The international criminal responsibility of a journalist for inciting the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity: A case study on Ukraine and Palestine

Abstract

The research aims to evaluate the criminal responsibilities at the international level of a journalist in cases inciting crimes mainly against humanity as well as the significant commission of war crimes by providing the case context of Palestine and Ukraine. For example, according to the literature review, it can be stated that within Ukraine, the war crimes committers, as well as the aggression crimes, are included within the similarity-worded provision of the “Ukrainian Criminal Code”. In the case of collecting the data to meet the research aim, mainly the “secondary qualitative data” collection and even the case study analysis by conduction of themes had been done. The result of this paper stated that due to the crime-related learnings among the journalists and not following the ICC law influenced them to incite the “crime against humanity” and even war crimes. In conclusion, this result recommends that they evaluate the crime in depth alignment with the “International Law” both in Palestine and in Ukraine.

Keywords: “International criminal responsibility”, “crimes against humanity”, “commission of war crimes”, Ukraine, Palestine, Civilians, violence

DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/148-03

Publication date: June 28^th 2025