This has been going on since way before Oct 7. Not that Oct. 7 is an excuse to commit war crimes, and undermine international law, but in this instance, the tim

This has been going on since way before Oct 7. Not that Oct. 7 is an excuse to commit war crimes, and undermine international law, but in this instance, the timeline simply doesn’t even add up for that to be considered an excuse. > That investigation, launched in 2021, culminated last week when Bensouda’s successor, Karim Khan, announced that he was seeking an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu > The ICC case, however, dates back to 2015, when Bensouda decided to open a preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine. > 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. > 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. > 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. > 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.