Surveillance and Interference: Israel's Covert War on the ICC Exposed

For nearly a decade, Israel has been surveilling senior International Criminal Court officials and Palestinian human rights workers as part of a secret operation to thwart the ICC’s probe into alleged war crimes, a joint investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal.

The multi-agency operation, which dates back to 2015, has seen Israel’s intelligence community routinely surveil the court’s current chief prosecutor Karim Khan, his predecessor Fatou Bensouda, and dozens of other ICC and UN officials. Israeli intelligence also monitored materials that the Palestinian Authority submitted to the prosecutor’s office, and surveilled employees at four Palestinian human rights organizations whose submissions are central to the probe.

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ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan taking his oath of office,

5 Facts about the Israeli Assaults


Israel has displaced 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people, that is 1.9 million people
• Equal to the combined populations of both Manhattan (NYC) and St. Petersburg, Florida  
 
Nearly 36,000 people in Gaza have been killed by Israel
• That number is more than the entire population of Watertown, Mass.
 
Israel has killed 15,000 children in Gaza
• This equates to all the children up to 17 years old in Cambridge, Mass. 
or 
More than two times the number of children enrolled in public schools in Cambridge, Mass.
 
80,000 people have been injured by Israel's war on Gaza              
• Imagine the entire population of Somerville, Mass.  
 
625,000 children are out of school 
• This is more than all the schoolchildren in the Los Angeles Unified School District