🚨BREAKING: Ex Mossad Chief ‘Stalked, Threatened’ ICC Official To Drop Israel War Crimes Probe

The former head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, was “personally involved” in a years-long intimidation campaign against former International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda that sought to pressure the Gambian lawyer to drop an investigation into Israeli war crimes...

According to informed sources who spoke with the Guardian, Cohen's tactics were described as “increasingly persistent and threatening,” with some likening his behavior to “stalking.”...

“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,” Cohen allegedly told the former ICC prosecutor during one of several secret meetings.

“The Mossad also took a keen interest in Bensouda’s family members and obtained transcripts of secret recordings of her husband, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the situation. Israeli officials then attempted to use the material to discredit the prosecutor,” the UK daily reports.

On one occasion, the former Mossad chief and close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly showed Bensouda “copies of photographs of her husband, which were taken covertly when the couple were visiting London.”

Cohen's activities were authorized “at a high level and justified on the basis the court posed a threat of prosecutions against military personnel,” a senior Israeli official told the Guardian.

The ICC case dates back to 2015 when Bensouda opened a preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine...

The formal investigation was launched years later in 2021. It culminated last week when current ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan announced he was seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, among other Israeli and Palestinian officials.

In his attempt to derail the looming probe, Cohen, over the years, “ambushed” Bensouda to pressure her into dropping her preliminary investigation.

This included what the report describes as a “bizarre incident” at a New York hotel that allegedly came together thanks to the help of the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Joseph Kabila.

“Bensouda was in New York in 2018 on an official visit and was meeting Kabila, then the president of the DRC, at his hotel … The meeting, however, appears to have been a setup. At a certain point, after Bensouda’s staff were asked to leave the room, Cohen entered,” three sources familiar with the matter revealed.

“The surprise appearance, they said, caused alarm to Bensouda and a group of ICC officials traveling with her,” the report adds.

In 2022, Israeli media revealed secret ties between Kabila and Cohen, including a series of undisclosed trips the former Mossad chief made to the DRC in 2019.

Israel's intimidation campaign was part of a “coordinated effort” with the government of former US president Donald Trump, as, between 2019 and 2020, the White House imposed visa restrictions and sanctions on Bensouda.

Trump's state secretary, Mike Pompeo, publicly linked the sanctions against the ICC official to the investigation into Israeli crimes in Palestine. “It’s clear the ICC is only putting Israel in [its] crosshairs for nakedly political purposes,” he said at the time.

Pompeo also accused Bensouda of having “engaged in corrupt acts for her personal benefit.”

ICC officials are once again being targeted by threats from western officials for seeking the arrest of Netanyahu and other Israeli authorities.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle

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