Netherlands summons Israeli ambassador over ICC spying allegations

Netherlands – Hebrew media revealed, yesterday, Wednesday, that the Netherlands summoned the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands, towards the backdrop of a journalistic investigation that confirmed that the Israeli Mossad spying on senior officers on the Worldwide Legal Court docket within the Dutch metropolis of The Hague.

The official Israeli Broadcasting Company mentioned: “Israel’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Modi Ephraim, was summoned to the Dutch Overseas Ministry for a reprimand.”

She defined that the rationale was “a press investigation that acknowledged that Israel was spying and threatening senior officers on the Worldwide Legal Court docket in The Hague.”

For its half, the Israeli Overseas Ministry refused to touch upon the information, in accordance with the identical supply.

On Might 28, the British newspaper The Guardian printed an investigation wherein it confirmed that Mossad spied on former worldwide felony prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and threatened her as a way to push her to work for Israel.

Based on the investigation, Mossad additionally spied on the courtroom’s present prosecutor, Karim Khan, and dozens of people that have been linked to anti-Israel proceedings within the courtroom, together with attorneys, diplomats and Palestinian activists.

Whereas the Hebrew Broadcasting Company and personal Hebrew newspapers, together with “Israel Hayom” and Maariv, mentioned that Ambassador Ephraim was summoned on Wednesday, the “Guardian” newspaper reported that the summoning was not right now, with out specifying its actual date.

However she mentioned that this summons was revealed by Dutch officers in response to questions posed by plenty of representatives in Parliament relating to this challenge.

She added that the spokesman for the Dutch Overseas Minister mentioned on Tuesday that Ambassador Ephraim was requested to answer the accusations reported by The Guardian in its journalistic investigation.

The spokesman refused to debate the main points, citing the confidentiality of the diplomatic talks.

In February 2021, the Pre-Trial Chamber of the Worldwide Legal Court docket printed a choice confirming that the courtroom has jurisdiction over the occupied Palestinian territories, and the next month Bensouda introduced the opening of a felony investigation into Israel committing “struggle crimes and crimes towards humanity within the Palestinian territories.”

Three months following this step, Bensouda accomplished her 9-year time period on the Worldwide Legal Court docket and left the investigation to her successor, Karim Khan.

On Might 20, Karim Khan introduced that he had requested arrest warrants for Netanyahu, his protection minister, and three leaders of the Palestinian factions motion on costs of committing “struggle crimes” in Gaza.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a struggle on Gaza that has left regarding 124,000 Palestinians lifeless and wounded, most of them kids and ladies, and greater than 10,000 lacking amid huge destruction and famine that has claimed the lives of dozens of kids.

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