Overview
- Karim Khan, in an exclusive interview with Middle East Eye, said members of the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties bureau are driving a biased effort to oust him tied to a sexual misconduct complaint and his Israel war-crimes probes.
- He said judges who reviewed a United Nations inquiry found no evidence of wrongdoing, yet the bureau kept the case open and confirmed his identity to the media.
- Khan said he faced threats over his pursuit of arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, naming David Cameron and Lindsey Graham as sources of pressure.
- He remains on leave as the ASP bureau, a panel of ICC member states that handles discipline, conducts a review that could determine his return as early as June.
- A Daily Wire column cites a Wall Street Journal report alleging Qatar sought to influence the prosecutor, highlighting starkly different media narratives about the ICC and its Israel investigations.