Israeli intelligence, led by Mossad, surveilled top ICC officials, human rights groups, and Palestinian victims to compromise the prosecutor or gain cooperation with Israel's demands. Netanyahu was deeply involved, receiving advanced knowledge of the prosecutor's plans through surveillance and hacking. The operation involved interception of phone conversations and messages, with Netanyahu sending instructions on areas of interest to monitor.
Israel's monitoring of and threats against the International Criminal Court prosecutor was not a low-level, rogue operation. Netanyahu is said to have sent “instructions” on “areas of interest” to monitor, and to have been “obsessed” by the intercepts. https://t.co/DJNCQUrKZl
The revelations about surveillance of and threats to International Criminal Court prosecutors show Israeli officials using underhanded methods to undermine the tribunal that might hold them to account. To the credit of Bensouda and Khan, the effort failed. https://t.co/DJNCQUrKZl
Mossad put the squeeze on ICC chief at Natanyahu’s instigation. More state villainy which imperils the future of Israel https://t.co/bVzsTl0bJd
Incredible investigation on Israeli surveillance and spying on ICC to stop and disrupt an official investigation against Israel. It includes intimidation, interception of phone conversations, messages, and every sort of pressure you can imagine https://t.co/gGwoBBPsaO
THREAD: A landmark investigation from @972mag, the @guardian and Local Call has exposed Israel’s 9-year long covert operation to surveil and threaten the International Criminal Court (ICC). Here's what you need to know. https://t.co/KVVzvcjgpU
One intelligence source said that Netanyahu was “obsessed” with intercepts acquired by the intelligence agencies from the ICC https://t.co/MILQaNPZt4
Netanyahu received advanced knowledge of the ICC's prosecutor's plans for him as a result of surveillance and hacking carried out by his intelligence agencies https://t.co/u3dr1BySxQ
An Israeli source briefed on the Bensouda case said Mossad's objective was to compromise the prosecutor or enlist her as someone who would cooperate with Israel’s demands https://t.co/wjX9HqYt36
'Obsessed' Netanyahu constantly updated on Israel's operations against ICC https://t.co/8VRlxVxnRG https://t.co/DU5P2tqBuM
Report: Israel spied on ICC and its chief prosecutor until last few months https://t.co/cIQULEfd7K
This took months: Israeli intelligence surveilled top ICC officials, human rights groups, and Palestinian victims whose testimonies were sent to the court, with Netanyahu 'obsessed' with the secret war. With @harryfoxdavies, @mck_beth and Meron Rapoport https://t.co/QeUtT018By
This statement will now inevitably be read in light of Mossad efforts to bribe and threaten ICC prosecutors https://t.co/ecQJDAMLum