Former ICC prosecutor says Mossad chief pressured her to stop investigating Israel war crimes

Former ICC prosecutor says Mossad chief pressured her to stop investigating Israel war crimes Submitted by MEE staff on Tue, 05/26/2026 - 10:06 Fatou Bensouda says she 'felt left alone' and 'unsupported' as the Dutch government failed to protect her during intimidation campaign over Palestine case Then ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda during the closing statements of the trial of former Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda in the Hague, Netherlands, 28 August 2018 (AFP) Off Former International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has said the then-head of Israel 's Mossad intelligence agency pressured her in a series of meetings to drop her investigation into alleged war crimes in occupied Palestine. Bensouda, who served as the ICC’s chief prosecutor from 2012 to 2021, said unidentified men came to her home in The Hague after she opened a preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine in 2015. "They came directly to my house," Bensouda told Al Jazeera in an interview published on Sunday.