SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Before Karim Khan, Israeli intelligence reportedly spent years surveilling and intimidating his predecessor, Fatou Bensouda.

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Before Karim Khan, Israeli intelligence reportedly spent years surveilling and intimidating his predecessor, Fatou Bensouda. The former Mossad chief allegedly pressured and threatened her and her family in an effort to derail the ICC’s Palestine investigation.

Then @KarimKhanQC
  sought arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.

Allegations against Khan—initially raised internally—were subsequently leaked into public view. What the complainant expected to remain a confidential process was publicized and politically weaponized. The Guardian reports that pro-Israel actors appear to have been active in leaking information about her complaint. Netanyahu later invoked her case to attack Khan and portray the warrants as “contaminated.”

The allegations were independently investigated. After reviewing the investigative report and thousands of pages of evidence, a panel of three senior judges unanimously concluded that the factual findings did not establish misconduct or breach of duty under the applicable legal standard.

That does not require us to accuse the complainant of fabrication. It does require us to state the evidentiary outcome honestly: the allegations were not proved before the independent judicial panel charged with assessing them.

Yet, the broader pattern remains deeply disturbing: surveillance, intimidation and pressure against one ICC prosecutor, followed by leaking and political weaponization of allegations against her successor—both while investigating Israel.

Israel’s campaign of coercion, surveillance and political interference against the ICC will continue for as long as the court insists on applying international law to Israel’s conduct in Palestine.

The international community has a duty to protect the ICC’s independence and ensure that neither its prosecutors nor its judicial processes are overridden by threats, reprisals or geopolitical pressure.