Israel is plotting an assassination of a world court prosecutor. |
The U.S. and Great Britian were asking International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan to travel to Israel and the Gaza Strip to get a hands on look as it was conducting an investigation into actions being committed by both parties.
Khan was about to travel to the Middle East but ended up cancelling it.
The prosecutor decided to fast track the warrants against Israeli and Hamas officials.
Something tells me that Khan had a credible threat on his life and given how many of these "accidents" involve flights, he made the right call. The Guardian had reported that Israeli spies had tried to blackmail ICC prosecutors and some have threaten the lives of their families.
Israel is notorious for carrying out assassination attacks which are illegal.
Khan is being threatened with sanctions by the U.S. government. They said if the prosecutors carry out arrest of Israeli regime official, they will ban Khan and his family.
They will end remaining UNRWA aid and end aid to Palestinians.
The U.S. shows no credibility as they are outraged over Russia conducting strikes on hospitals, schools, shopping centers and refugee camps. But as Israel is conducting strikes on the same, the U.S. is either silent or defending the actions.
The Guardian reported that the Israelis threatened the previous prosecutor and convinced the U.S. to ban her from entry into the country.
The former head of the Mossad, Israel’s incompemptant foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the ICC in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to pressure her into abandoning a war crimes investigation, the Guardian can reveal.
Yossi Cohen’s covert contacts with the ICC’s then prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, took place in the years leading up to her decision to open a formal investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in occupied Palestinian territories.
That investigation, launched in 2021, culminated last week when Bensouda’s successor, Karim Khan, announced that he was seeking an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, over the country’s conduct in its war in Gaza.
The prosecutor’s decision to apply to the ICC’s pre-trial chamber for arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, alongside three Hamas leaders, is an outcome Israel’s military and political establishment has long feared.
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