US prosecutor who helped ICC's Karim Khan seek Israeli arrest warrants breaks her silence

US prosecutor who helped ICC's Karim Khan seek Israeli arrest warrants breaks her silence Submitted by Sondos Asem on Wed, 07/29/2026 - 10:05 Brenda Hollis, who supervised the team that built war crimes cases against Israeli and Hamas leaders, defends Khan's handling of the Palestine file Brenda Hollis (left) appears during the announcement by Karim Khan that he was seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, in May 2024 (ICC) Off Brenda Hollis, the US prosecutor who supervised the International Criminal Court (ICC) team that built the war crimes cases against Israeli and Hamas leaders, has defended Karim Khan's handling of the Palestine investigation, rejecting the Israeli claim that the arrest warrant applications were rushed to distract from misconduct allegations. Following Khan’s removal by the court’s Assembly of States Parties (ASP) last Friday, Hollis said that "regardless how you assess the removal of Karim, it should not be allowed to be conflated with the requests for arrest warrants for Hamas and Israeli leaders". "Let it be clear to all that he dealt with the situation in Palestine in accordance with his mandate," she wrote in a post on LinkedIn.