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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The former head of the Mossad, Israel\u2019s foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to pressure her into abandoning a war crimes investigation, the Guardian can reveal.<\/b><\/p>\n

Yossi Cohen\u2019s covert contacts with the ICC\u2019s then prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, took place in the years leading up to her decision to open a formal investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in occupied Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n

That investigation, launched in 2021, culminated last week when Bensouda\u2019s successor, Karim Khan, announced that he was seeking an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, over the country\u2019s conduct in its war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor\u2019s decision to apply to the ICC\u2019s pre-trial chamber for arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, alongside three Hamas leaders, is an outcome Israel\u2019s military and political establishment has long feared.<\/p>\n

Cohen\u2019s personal involvement in the operation against the ICC took place when he was the director of the Mossad. His activities were authorised at a high level and justified on the basis the court posed a threat of prosecutions against military personnel, according to a senior Israeli official.<\/p>\n

Another Israeli source briefed on the operation against Bensouda said the Mossad\u2019s objective was to compromise the prosecutor or enlist her as someone who would cooperate with Israel\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n

A third source familiar with the operation said Cohen was acting as Netanyahu\u2019s \u201cunofficial messenger\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cohen, who was one of Netanyahu\u2019s closest allies at the time and is emerging as a political force in his own right in Israel, personally led the Mossad\u2019s involvement in an almost decade-long campaign by the country to undermine the court.<\/p>\n

Four sources confirmed that Bensouda had briefed a small group of senior ICC officials about Cohen\u2019s attempts to sway her, amid concerns about the increasingly persistent and threatening nature of his behaviour.<\/p>\n

Three of those sources were familiar with Bensouda\u2019s formal disclosures to the ICC about the matter. They said she revealed Cohen had put pressure on her on several occasions not to proceed with a criminal investigation in the ICC\u2019s Palestine case.<\/p>\n

According to accounts shared with ICC officials, he is alleged to have told her: \u201cYou should help us and let us take care of you. You don\u2019t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.\u201d<\/p>\n

One individual briefed on Cohen\u2019s activities said he had used \u201cdespicable tactics\u201d against Bensouda as part of an ultimately unsuccessful effort to intimidate and influence her. They likened his behaviour to \u201cstalking\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Mossad also took a keen interest in Bensouda\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

The revelations about Cohen\u2019s operation form part of a forthcoming investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, revealing how multiple Israel intelligence agencies ran a covert \u201cwar\u201d against the ICC for almost a decade.<\/p>\n

Contacted by the Guardian, a spokesperson for Israel\u2019s prime minister\u2019s office said: \u201cThe questions forwarded to us are replete with many false and unfounded allegations meant to hurt the state of Israel.\u201d Cohen did not respond to a request for comment. Bensouda declined to comment.<\/p>\n

In the Mossad\u2019s efforts to influence Bensouda, Israel received support from an unlikely ally: Joseph Kabila, the former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who played a supporting role in the plot.<\/p>\n

Revelations about the Mossad\u2019s efforts to influence Bensouda come as the current chief prosecutor, Khan, warned in recent days that he would not hesitate to prosecute \u201cattempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence\u201d ICC officials.<\/p>\n

According to legal experts and former ICC officials, efforts by the Mossad to threaten or put pressure on Bensouda could amount to offences against the administration of justice under article 70 of the Rome statute, the treaty that established the court.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the ICC would not say whether Khan had reviewed his predecessor\u2019s disclosures about her contacts with Cohen, but said Khan had never met or spoken to the head of the Mossad.<\/p>\n

While the spokesperson declined to comment on specific allegations, they said Khan\u2019s office had been subjected to \u201cseveral forms of threats and communications that could be viewed as attempts to unduly influence its activities\u201d.<\/p>\n

Bensouda sparks ire of Israel<\/b><\/p>\n

Khan\u2019s decision to seek arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant last week marked the first time the court had taken action against leaders of a country closely allied with the US and Europe. Their alleged crimes \u2013 which include directing attacks on civilians and using starvation as a method of warfare \u2013 relate to the eight-month war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The ICC case, however, dates back to 2015, when Bensouda decided to open a preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine. Short of a full investigation, her inquiry was tasked with making an initial assessment of allegations of crimes by individuals in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Bensouda\u2019s decision sparked the ire of Israel, which feared its citizens could be prosecuted for their involvement in operations in Palestinian territories. Israel had long been open about its opposition to the ICC, refusing to recognise its authority. Israeli ministers intensified their attacks on the court and even vowed to try to dismantle it.<\/p>\n

Soon after commencing the preliminary examination, Bensouda and her senior prosecutors began to receive warnings that Israeli intelligence was taking a close interest in their work.<\/p>\n

According to two sources, there were even suspicions among senior ICC officials that Israel had cultivated sources within the court\u2019s prosecution division, known as the office of the prosecutor. Another later recalled that although the Mossad \u201cdidn\u2019t leave its signature\u201d, it was an assumption the agency was behind some of the activity officials had been made aware of.<\/p>\n

Only a small group of senior figures at the ICC, however, were informed that the director of the Mossad had personally approached the chief prosecutor.<\/p>\n

A career spy, Cohen enjoys a reputation in Israel\u2019s intelligence community as an effective recruiter of foreign agents. He was a loyal and powerful ally of the prime minister at the time, having been appointed as director of the Mossad by Netanyahu in 2016 after working for several years at his side as his national security adviser.<\/p>\n

As the head of the national security council between 2013 and 2016, Cohen oversaw the body that, according to multiple sources, began to coordinate a multiagency effort against the ICC once Bensouda opened the preliminary inquiry in 2015.<\/p>\n

Cohen\u2019s first interaction with Bensouda appears to have taken place at the Munich security conference in 2017, when the Mossad director introduced himself to the prosecutor in a brief exchange. After this encounter, Cohen subsequently \u201cambushed\u201d Bensouda in a bizarre episode in a Manhattan hotel suite, according to multiple sources familiar with the incident.<\/p>\n

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 pair had met several times before in relation to the ICC\u2019s ongoing investigation into alleged crimes committed in his country.<\/p>\n

The meeting, however, appears to have been a setup. At a certain point, after Bensouda\u2019s staff were asked to leave the room, Cohen entered, according to three sources familiar with the meeting. The surprise appearance, they said, caused alarm to Bensouda and a group of ICC officials travelling with her.<\/p>\n

Why Kabila helped Cohen is unclear, but ties between the two men were revealed in 2022 by the Israeli publication TheMarker, which reported on a series of secretive trips the Mossad director made to the DRC throughout 2019.<\/p>\n

According to the publication, Cohen\u2019s trips, during which he sought Kabila\u2019s advice \u201con an issue of interest to Israel\u201d, and which were almost certainly approved by Netanyahu, were highly unusual and had astonished senior figures within the intelligence community.<\/p>\n

Reporting on the DRC meetings in 2022, the Israeli broadcaster Kan 11 said Cohen\u2019s trips related to an \u201cextremely controversial plan\u201d and cited official sources who described it as \u201cone of Israel\u2019s most sensitive secrets\u201d.<\/p>\n

Multiple sources have confirmed to the Guardian the trips were partly related to the ICC operation, and Kabila, who left office in January 2019, played an important supporting role in the Mossad\u2019s plot against Bensouda. Kabila did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

\u2018Threats and manipulation\u2019<\/p>\n

After the surprise meeting with Kabila and Bensouda in New York, Cohen repeatedly phoned the chief prosecutor and sought meetings with her, three sources recalled. According to two people familiar with the situation, at one stage Bensouda asked Cohen how he had obtained her phone number, to which he replied: \u201cDid you forget what I do for a living?\u201d<\/p>\n

Initially, the sources explained, the intelligence chief \u201ctried to build a relationship\u201d with the prosecutor and played \u201cgood cop\u201d in an attempt to charm her. The initial objective, they said, appeared to have been to enlist Bensouda into cooperating with Israel.<\/p>\n

Over time, however, the tone of Cohen\u2019s contact changed and he began to use a range of tactics, including \u201cthreats and manipulation\u201d, an individual briefed on the meetings said. This prompted Bensouda to inform a small group of senior ICC officials about his behaviour.<\/p>\n

In December 2019, the prosecutor announced that she had grounds to open a full criminal investigation into allegations of war crimes in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. However, she held off launching it, deciding first to request a ruling from the ICC\u2019s pre-trial chamber to confirm the court did indeed have jurisdiction over Palestine.<\/p>\n

Multiple sources said it was at this stage, as the judges considered the case, that Cohen escalated his attempts to persuade Bensouda not to pursue a full investigation in the event the judges gave her the green light.<\/p>\n

Between late 2019 and early 2021, the sources said, there were at least three encounters between Cohen and Bensouda, all initiated by the spy chief. His behaviour is said to have become increasingly concerning to ICC officials.<\/p>\n

A source familiar with Bensouda\u2019s accounts of the final two meetings with Cohen said he had raised questions about her security, and that of her family, in a manner that led her to believe he was threatening her.<\/p>\n

On one occasion, Cohen is said to have shown Bensouda copies of photographs of her husband, which were taken covertly when the couple were visiting London. On another, according to sources, Cohen suggested to the prosecutor that a decision to open a full investigation would be detrimental to her career.<\/p>\n

Four sources familiar with the situation said it was around the same time that Bensouda and other ICC officials discovered that information was circulating among diplomatic channels relating to her husband, who worked as an international affairs consultant.<\/p>\n

Between 2019 and 2020, the Mossad had been actively seeking compromising information on the prosecutor and took an interest in her family members.<\/p>\n

The spy agency obtained a cache of material, including transcripts of an apparent sting operation against her husband.<\/p>\n

It is unclear who conducted the operation, or precisely what he is alleged to have said in the recordings. One possibility is that he had been targeted by the intelligence agency or by private actors of another country that wanted leverage over the ICC. Another possibility is the information was fabricated.<\/p>\n

Once in the possession of Israel, however, the material was used by its diplomats in an unsuccessful attempt to undermine the chief prosecutor. But according to multiple sources, Israel failed to convince its allies of the significance of the material.<\/p>\n

Three sources briefed on the information shared by Israel at a diplomatic level described the efforts as part of an unsuccessful \u201csmear campaign\u201d against Bensouda. \u201cThey went after Fatou,\u201d one source said, but it had \u201cno impact\u201d on the prosecutor\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

The diplomatic efforts were part of a coordinated effort by the governments of Netanyahu and Donald Trump in the US to place public and private pressure on the prosecutor and her staff.<\/p>\n

Between 2019 and 2020, in an unprecedented decision, the Trump administration imposed visa restrictions and sanctions on the chief prosecutor. The move was in retaliation to Bensouda\u2019s pursuit of a separate investigation into war crimes in Afghanistan, allegedly committed by the Taliban and both Afghan and US military personnel.<\/p>\n

However, Mike Pompeo, then US secretary of state, linked the sanctions package to the Palestine case. \u201cIt\u2019s clear the ICC is only putting Israel in [its] crosshairs for nakedly political purposes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Months later, he accused Bensouda, without citing any evidence, of having \u201cengaged in corrupt acts for her personal benefit\u201d.<\/p>\n

The US sanctions were rescinded after President Joe Biden entered the White House.<\/p>\n

In February 2021, the ICC\u2019s pre-trial chamber issued a ruling confirming the ICC had jurisdiction in occupied Palestinian territories. The following month, Bensouda announced the opening of the criminal investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, our central concern must be for the victims of crimes, both Palestinian and Israeli, arising from the long cycle of violence and insecurity that has caused deep suffering and despair on all sides,\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n

Bensouda completed her nine-year term at the ICC three months later, leaving it to her successor, Khan, to take up the investigation. It was only after the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October and the ensuing war on Gaza that the ICC\u2019s investigation gained renewed urgency, culminating in last week\u2019s request for arrest warrants.<\/p>\n

It was the conclusion Israel\u2019s political, military and intelligence establishment had feared. \u201cThe fact they chose the head of Mossad to be the prime minister\u2019s unofficial messenger to [Bensouda] was to intimidate, by definition,\u201d said a source briefed on Cohen\u2019s operation. \u201cIt failed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: The Standard Newspaper | Gambia<\/b><\/p>\n

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