Efforts by Israel’s intelligence agencies to undermine and influence the international criminal court (ICC) could amount to “offences against the administration of justice” and should be investigated by its chief prosecutor, legal experts have said.

Responding to revelations about Israeli surveillance and espionage operations against the ICC, multiple leading international law experts said the conduct of Israeli intelligence services could amount to criminal offences.

The disclosures about Israel’s nine-year campaign against the court were published on Tuesday as part of a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call. It details how the country’s intelligence agencies were deployed to surveil, hack, put pressure on, smear and allegedly threaten senior ICC staff.

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  • WaterSword
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    6 months ago

    its the classic tale of not getting arrested for the crime but for hampering in the investigation of that crime lol

    • jorp@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      worth noting this is a decade-long campaign not related to the current conflict. back when most of the world was unconditionally loving Israel they were doing this