A new report by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call has unveiled a nine-year covert operation by Israel's intelligence agencies to surveil, hack, and intimidate officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2015 to present. The operation aimed to undermine the ICC's investigation into alleged war crimes committed in Gaza. The Mossad, under the direction of Yossi Cohen, employed various tactics including interception of communications and direct threats to ICC prosecutors. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly deeply involved, with sources indicating he was 'obsessed' with intelligence intercepts from the ICC. The operation included retroactively opening investigations to demonstrate Israel's capability to self-regulate, though these efforts have been criticized as superficial and obstructive. The ICC prosecutors, including Fatou Bensouda, faced significant pressure but continued their investigations. Previous attempts to report on these activities were blocked by Israeli security services, highlighting the extensive measures taken to conceal the operation. Ken Roth and Haaretz have been vocal about these revelations.
It's often said Israel has always been as deranged as now but the Mossad chief who wiretapped the ICC & threatened to torture the reporter who found out also wiretapped his predecessor for saying "apartheid" & yet is now himself a Bibiland pariah for advocating peace for hostages https://t.co/sAqN3pKg44 https://t.co/VgJCd0yzUZ
It's often said Israel has always been as deranged as now but the Mossad chief who wiretapped the ICC prosecutor & threatened to torture the reporter who found out also wiretapped his predecessor for saying Israel was an apartheid state, & yet is now himself a bibiland pariah for… https://t.co/QlyXozVOVm https://t.co/VgJCd0y25r
It's often said Israel has always been as deranged as now but the Mossad chief who wiretapped the ICC prosecutor & threatened to torture the reporter who found out also wiretapped his predecessor for saying Israel was an apartheid state, & yet is now himself a ruling clique… https://t.co/AGjWCFmVEA https://t.co/VgJCd0y25r
It's often said Israel has always been as deranged as now but the Mossad chief who wiretapped the ICC prosecutor & threatened to torture the reporter who found out also wiretapped his immediate predecessor for saying Israel was a Mafia run apartheid state, & yet is now himself a… https://t.co/yXXGmlJHq2 https://t.co/VgJCd0y25r
The Netanyahu government has shown Israeli self-investigations to be about not securing but obstructing justice. Self-investigations were begun only to dissuade the International Criminal Court from itself pursuing a case that hacking showed of interest. https://t.co/RIsOnpYFF4
On @DemocracyNow, I explain how the Israeli government's hacking of and threats to the International Criminal Court prosecutor is a crime of obstructing justice and evidence that Netanyahu seeks to thwart rather than uphold justice for his war crimes. https://t.co/RIsOnpYFF4
Haaretz has had to black out its reporting due to order from Israel’s government censor 👇 https://t.co/mDGj8UsqoW
From surveillance operations to public condemnation, here is a recap of Israel’s attacks on the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2015 to present day. Read here: https://t.co/fp8CgJLKnz https://t.co/NOFcPLqHIv
How Israel nixed Haaretz's report into alleged Mossad chief efforts to threaten Hague prosecutor / @GurMegiddo https://t.co/qdF9aPqVfN
How Israeli Security Nixed Haaretz's Report Into Alleged #Mossad Extortion of International Court Prosecutor | #Israel #ICC https://t.co/nYnHTSwM2L
"Sounds like Cosa Nostra blackmail": Former Mossad chief talks to Haaretz's @yossi_melman about successor's alleged threats against ICC prosecutor https://t.co/gCvDcvg2Yd
Israeli security services blocked a Haaretz report from emerging, which would spill the beans on Mossad pressure against the ICC prosecutor in 2022. Imagine other things they have blocked, and kept under the radar https://t.co/ChyBjbLVHM
'We understand you know about the [ICC] prosecutor' Chilling account by Haaretz's @GurMegiddo about how Israeli security agencies used threats & emergency powers to squash his report 2 yrs ago on Mossad chief's attempts to recruit/extort ICC's Bensouda https://t.co/hP8z5KchzH
A new report by the @guardian and @972mag reveals that Israel surveilled, hacked, smeared and threatened top ICC officials in order to stop possible war crimes prosecutions of Israeli leaders. "This is a crime,” says @KenRoth, former executive director at @hrw. https://t.co/hEGiUkvFMU
Israeli security officials blocked an earlier attempt by Haaretz to reveal how then-Israeli Mossad chief Yossi Cohen tried to threaten then-International Criminal Court prosecutor chief Fatou Bensouda so she wouldn't investigate Israeli officials. https://t.co/r9zQS4Rg2u
Israeli authorities began investigations only after learning from their spying that the ICC prosecutor was interested in an area – hardly a good-faith commitment to justice. That is why we need the ICC – as a backstop when national justice efforts fail. https://t.co/DJNCQUrKZl
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
This goes under the banner of unsurprising yet utterly shocking: Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the @IntlCrimCourt exposed https://t.co/X28EaG3ODK
Mossad put the squeeze on ICC chief at Natanyahu’s instigation. More state villainy which imperils the future of Israel https://t.co/bVzsTl0bJd
This remarkable piece documents years - yes, literally years - of attempts by the Israeli intelligence services to undermine the ICC and subvert its investigation of potential war crimes. https://t.co/zrhnwHlfoj
.@guardian's @harryfoxdavies on how Mossad director tried assorted dirty-tricks gangster stuff to intimidate ICC prosecutor opening investigation that implicated Israel: https://t.co/E0jnxa3Pjy
🧵1/ I’m reading the new manifested “Mossad/zionists” propaganda BS published by @guardian on a so called top secret operation led by no less than the head of the Mossad himself - supposedly to threaten the ICC prosecutor, during previous legal proceedings starting in 2019 and… https://t.co/Z23uIhbk5o
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
According to The Guardian, Mossad director Yossi Cohen is personally involved in a secret plot to pressure ICC officials to drop Israel war crime investigations. https://t.co/rn8oiFdP5Y
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
"Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry". Summary: smug gangsters too incompetent to organise orgy in a brothel https://t.co/ImqXYrIH9X
ICC Prosecutor was threatened by the Mossad over inquiry into Israeli war crimes. Israel continues to prove its a rogue state with no respect towards International Law https://t.co/6Bw46TCkJv
Faking accountability: Israel used its surveillance of ICC prosecutors "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." It isn't. https://t.co/Tmryw5Ckd4
New report filed by the Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals a pattern of spying, hacking, and intimidation tactics employed by Israel's intelligence agencies to undermine the ICC's investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza / @RachelSFink https://t.co/Hwth8P25vj