Israel-Palestine Conflict

Extract from a Mail article, naturally tagged on the end:

The commission's findings come weeks after it was revealed that the former head of Israel 's national intelligence agency allegedly tried to intimidate an International Criminal Court prosecutor into abandoning a war crimes investigation. Yossi Cohen, who until 2021 was the chief of the Mossad and a close ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reportedly embarked on a years-long campaign of threat-making and 'stalker' behaviour toward Fatou Bensouda. The Gambian-born prosecutor in 2015 launched a preliminary examination of crimes in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Israeli military and settlers.

But Cohen is said to have told Bensouda shortly after the investigations began: '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.' Sources who spoke to The Guardian went on to describe 'despicable tactics' employed by Cohen - who was said to be working as Netanyahu 's 'unofficial messenger' - in his underhand efforts to influence the prosecutor. One described compared his behaviour to that of a stalker, while another said Cohen arranged to have spies obtain secret recordings of Bensouda's husband and take photographs of the pair on a trip to London, which he later used to insinuate her family could be in danger.


 

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