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Israel Leader Threatened War Crime Prosecutor

May 31, 2024
The former chief of Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a prosecutor’s family to stop her from investigating war crimes.
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Yossi Cohen, former chief of Israel’s foreign intelligence agency Mossad, reportedly threatened a prosecutor investigating the country’s war crimes. The Guardian reports that Cohen repeatedly threatened Fatou...
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Reports say that former Chief of Mossad Israel's Foreign Intelligence Agency threatened
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a prosecutor's family so she would stop investigating Israeli war crimes.
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Yasi Cohen pressured International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou be Souda to drop
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the investigation. Sources say he told her you do not want
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to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that
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of your family. That sounds like a threat to me.
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He's intense accounts say he used despicable tactics against her including stalking
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Massad also allegedly obtained recordings of the prosecutor's husband and tried to
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use them against her.
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That's only something a guilty person would do.
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Israeli authorities called the allegations false and unfounded and said they are
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meant to hurt the state of Israel.
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The International Criminal Court opened an investigation into war crimes in Palestine
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In 2021 this month,
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it announced that it is seeking war crime,
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arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israeli and Hamas officials
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just deflecting at all costs.