Ben-Gvir urges that Al Jazeera journalists be expelled from Israel

Jewish Power leader Itamar Ben-Gvir urged that Al Jazeera journalists be expelled from Israel not long after the broadcaster submitted Shireen Abu Akleh's case to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The extremist leader claimed that the pan-Arab channel is a "false propaganda network working against Israel", Turkish news agency Anadolu reported.

Ben-Gvir is tipped to become Israel's national security minister in an incoming government led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which is predicted to be the most extreme in Israel's history.

Al Jazeera on Tuesday submitted the case of Palestinian American journalist Abu Akleh, who was killed in May by Israeli forces, to the International Criminal Court.

"Al Jazeera is an anti-Semitic and false propaganda network working against Israel in the world," Ben-Gvir claimed on Twitter.

"They should be expelled from the country today and the anti-Israel campaign of lies should be stopped from within Israel," he said.

Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's outgoing finance minister and another right-winger, appeared to agree with Ben Gvir. 

The Times of Israel reported him as calling "on the Government Press Office to revoke the press cards of all Al Jazeera reporters in Israeli territory".

Abu Akleh was a celebrated, long-serving journalist for Al Jazeera shot dead by Israeli forces at the age of 51 as she reported on a military raid at the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on 11 May.

The channel said its ICC submission highlighted "new witness evidence and video footage [that] clearly show that Shireen and her colleagues were directly fired at by the Israeli Occupation Forces".

"The claim by the Israeli authorities that Shireen was killed by mistake in an exchange of fire is completely unfounded."

Agencies contributed to this report.