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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Fatou Bensouda

Modi Ephraim, Israel's Ambassador to the Netherlands. (Israel Foreign Ministry)
June 27, 2024, 11:51 am
Netherlands summons Israeli envoy over report on years-long campaign against ICC
Amsterdam says it has ‘concerns’ over media claims Israel spied on and pressured International Criminal Court regarding possible arrest warrants for Israeli leaders
By ToI Staff
Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (left), announces he is seeking arrest warrants from the court’s judges for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, along with Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh (ICC); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video address, May 20, 2024. (Screenshot/GPO)
May 28, 2024, 8:28 pm
Israel said to have waged 9-year ‘war’ against ICC, tapping its communications
Guardian reports intel, diplomatic push included threats; last month, Jerusalem found out via intercepted call that prosecutor could seek arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Gallant
By Michael Bachner
Ex-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen (left) at the Kirya base in Tel Aviv, January 16, 2023 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90); Then-International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in The Hague, Netherlands, June 14, 2021. (Peter Dejong/AP Photo)
May 28, 2024, 2:08 pm
Former Mossad chief threatened ICC prosecutor over probe into Israel, report claims
The Guardian charges that Yossi Cohen ‘stalked’ and ‘intimidated’ former ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda between 2017 and 2021, hinted he’d incriminate her husband
By ToI Staff
Incoming ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan in Baghdad, July 27, 2019. (Sabah Arar/AFP)
June 16, 2021, 4:04 pm
With Israel-Hamas probe on agenda, Karim Khan sworn in as ICC chief prosecutor
The British lawyer urges countries to utilize Hague-based court only as ‘last resort’; predecessor warns of efforts to ‘politicize’ investigations
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinian protesters attend a demonstration against the Evyatar settlement outpost, south of Nablus, on June 4, 2021, in the West Bank. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
June 16, 2021, 2:06 pm
IDF: Palestinian shot after throwing explosive at troops in outpost protest
Army says group of protestors charged at soldiers in illegal Evyatar settlement near Nablus; no Israeli casualties reported
By ToI Staff
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda waits for former Congo vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to enter the court room of the International Criminal Court to stand trial with Aime Kilolo Musamba, Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo, Fidele Babala Wandu and Narcisse Arido, on charges including corruptly influencing witnesses by giving them money and instructions to provide false testimony, and presenting false evidence, in The Hague, Netherlands, September 29, 2015. (AP/Peter Dejong/File)
June 14, 2021, 11:40 pm
Outgoing ICC prosecutor says court ‘not ignoring anything’ from Israel-Hamas war
Days before her departure, Fatou Bensouda insists US sanctions imposed by Trump over investigation into Israel crossed ‘a red line,’ sees ‘reset’ with Biden administration
By AP and ToI Staff
The Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, home of the UN Human Rights Council (CC BY-SA Henry Mühlpfordt/Wikipedia)
May 26, 2021, 6:45 pm
Muslim nations ask UN to form unprecedented permanent panel to critique Israel
Proposal comes ahead of rights council session on ‘grave human rights situation’ in Gaza, West Bank, East Jerusalem; no commission of inquiry has ever received a continuing mandate
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
Fire and smoke rise from the al-Jalaa Tower, which housed the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, as it is destroyed in an Israeli airstrike after the IDF warned the occupants to leave a building it said was a Hamas asset, Gaza City, May 15, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)
May 22, 2021, 5:55 pm
Gaza media building owner complains to ICC, says Israeli strike a ‘war crime’
Israel says the building housed Hamas intel operatives and weapons development efforts; owner denies the high-rise was used for military purposes
By Agencies and ToI Staff
ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is seen through a plexiglass lectern in the court room of the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, September 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)
May 14, 2021, 1:02 pm
ICC may probe current Israel-Gaza round of violence in war crimes investigation
Chief prosecutor Bensouda says court could look at ‘evolution of these events’ as part of ongoing probe of 2014 fighting and subsequent incidents
By ToI Staff
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves after a coronavirus briefing in Downing Street, London, April 5, 2021. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool via AP)
April 14, 2021, 8:17 pm
PA slams UK’s ‘subversion of global order’ after Johnson opposes ICC probe
In a letter to Conservative Friends of Israel, British PM says court has no jurisdiction to investigate Israel; Palestinian mission says statement marks ‘low point’ in relations
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Benny Gantz at a cermony in Sha’ar Hagai, marking 80 years since the formation of the Palmach, on April 9, 2021. (Ministry of Defense)
April 9, 2021, 4:26 pm
Israel submits formal response to ICC as Gantz slams ‘blind and unjust’ decision
Defense minister says he believes ‘truth will come to light,’ a day after the Jewish state decided to officially reject war crimes probe in a letter to Hague-based court
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators carry banners outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, rear, urging the court to prosecute Israel's army for alleged war crimes, The Hague on November 29, 2019. (AP/Peter Dejong)
April 8, 2021, 5:29 pm
Israel to tell ICC: You don’t have authority to investigate us
In formal response to court’s decision to launch war crimes probe, Jerusalem expected to say it won’t cooperate with the investigation
By ToI Staff
Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda at the opening of the court's judicial year with a Special Session at the seat of the court in The Hague, January 23, 2020. (courtesy ICC)
April 3, 2021, 10:23 pm
Netanyahu to hold high-level talks on ICC war crimes probe
Defense Minister Gantz, Foreign Minister Ashkenazi to join discussion on how to respond to letter from International Criminal Court on alleged crimes by Israel, Palestinians
By ToI Staff
Silvia Fernandez De Gurmendi from Argentina takes the oath during a swearing-in ceremony as a new judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), at the seat of the Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/ Bas Czerwinski)
April 3, 2021, 4:54 pm
ICC hopes for ‘new phase’ as Biden lifts sanctions on prosecutor probing Israel
Top official says she now anticipates US support to ensure no impunity for war crimes; outgoing prosecutor last month announced probe of Israel, Palestinian terror groups
By Agencies and ToI Staff
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a media conference in Brussels, Monday, March 22, 2021 (Aris Oikonomou, Pool via AP)
April 3, 2021, 2:55 pm
European Union lauds US decision to drop sanctions against ICC prosecutor
Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says move ‘underlines US commitment to international rules-based system’; Trump had sanctioned top officials over Afghanistan, Israel probes
By ToI Staff
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