The British government threatened to defund the international criminal court and leave the Rome statute that set it up if it pressed ahead with plans to issue an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, the ICC’s prosecutor has claimed.
… Khan does not name the individual who made the threats, saying the call on 23 April 2024 was with a British official, but reports have suggested the caller may have been the then British foreign secretary, David Cameron. Khan said the official had argued that issuing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defence minister, was disproportionate.
… He claimed that in a further call on 1 May the US senator Lindsey Graham warned him that applying arrest warrants meant Hamas may as well shoot Israeli hostages.
Khan said he had learned for the first time about sexual misconduct allegations against him on 2 May. He said that on 6 May a third party revealed that someone without the alleged victim’s consent had issued a complaint about his behaviour to the court’s watchdog, the internal oversight mechanism. When the victim said she did not wish to pursue an investigation the matter was dropped until an anonymous account on X started to reopen the allegations in October, he said.
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