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Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

For everyone saying Israel doesn't have to listen to the ICC:

Israel, like the US, Russia and China, is not a member. After Palestine’s acceptance as an ICC member, any alleged war crimes – committed by those of any nationality – in occupied Palestinian territories now fell under Bensouda’s jurisdiction.

[-] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

It's really simple, I think. If you don't want to be accused of being a war criminal, don't commit war crimes.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yet the ICC has no teeth.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

In one of the earliest encounters, Cohen surprised Bensouda when he made an unexpected appearance at an official meeting the prosecutor was holding with the then DRC president, Joseph Kabila, in a New York hotel suite.

Sources familiar with the meeting said that after Bensouda’s staff were asked to leave the room, the director of the Mossad suddenly appeared from behind a door in a carefully choreographed “ambush”.

Israelis are literal cartoon villains

[-] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 4 points 7 months ago

Straight from a spy movie lol. It's like the Cold War still up in here apparently.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is a huge article. A few highlights:

A hand-delivered threat

On 16 January 2015, within weeks of Palestine joining, Bensouda opened a preliminary examination into what in the legalese of the court was called “the situation in Palestine”. The following month, two men who had managed to obtain the prosecutor’s private address turned up at her home in The Hague.

Sources familiar with the incident said the men declined to identify themselves when they arrived, but said they wanted to hand-deliver a letter to Bensouda on behalf of an unknown German woman who wanted to thank her. The envelope contained hundreds of dollars in cash and a note with an Israeli phone number.

Hacked emails and monitored calls

“If Fatou Bensouda spoke to any person in the West Bank or Gaza, then that phone call would enter [intercept] systems,” one source said. Another said there was no hesitation internally over spying on the prosecutor, adding: “With Bensouda, she’s black and African, so who cares?”

Officials also became aware of specific threats against a prominent Palestinian NGO, Al-Haq, which was one of several Palestinian human rights groups that frequently submitted information to the ICC inquiry, often in lengthy documents detailing incidents it wanted the prosecutor to consider. The Palestinian Authority submitted similar dossiers.

Such documents often contained sensitive information such as testimony from potential witnesses. Al-Haq’s submissions are also understood to have linked specific allegations of Rome statute crimes to senior officials, including chiefs of the IDF, directors of the Shin Bet, and defence ministers such as Benny Gantz.

Years later, after the ICC had opened a full investigation into the Palestine case, Gantz designated Al-Haq and five other Palestinian rights groups as “terrorist organisations”, a label that was rejected by multiple European states and later found by the CIA to be unsupported by evidence. The organisations said the designations were a “targeted assault” against those most actively engaging with the ICC.

[-] applepie@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago

EU did nothing to protect the rules based order...

Here we are.

Cheers, lets sacrifice whatever left of this clown system so Israel can conduct a hail Mary genocide before we can really say never again!???

[-] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 7 points 7 months ago

So they've played this game before, of calling humanitarian and rights groups terrorists.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

There many that spoke up about Israel before October. Warning us that Israel is what we can all see it is right now. We thought they were exaggerating. In hindsight they might have been too conservative in their accusations

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