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ICC Chief Accuses Mossad of Intimidation, Asset Freeze

5/30/2026

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ICC chief Fatou Bensouda said Israel’s Mossad ran an intimidation campaign to stop her Palestine probe, after which sanctions froze her assets and blocked her UN credit-union account.
Men delivered an envelope with $500 to her Hague home in 2015 after she opened a preliminary examination.
Bensouda said former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen met her in a New York hotel during the UNGA and warned her family’s safety was at risk.

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ICC chief Fatou Bensouda said Israel’s Mossad ran an intimidation campaign to stop her Palestine probe, after which sanctions froze her assets and blocked her UN credit-union account.
Men delivered an envelope with $500 to her Hague home in 2015 after she opened a preliminary examination.
Bensouda said former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen met her in a New York hotel during the UNGA and warned her family’s safety was at risk.