“You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.”
According to new reporting this week from The Guardian, Yossi Cohen, in his capacity at the time as director of the Israeli spy agency Mossad, spoke those intimidating words to Fatou Bensouda when she was the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor.
Additional reporting from +972 Magazine indicates that “for nearly a decade, Israel has been surveilling senior International Criminal Court officials and Palestinian human rights workers as part of a secret operation to thwart the ICC’s probe into alleged war crimes.”
Israel gathered intelligence to “retroactively open investigations into incidents that were of interest to the ICC, to try to prove that Israel’s legal system is capable of holding its own to account.” ….more
