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"An investigative reporter with Israel’s leading leftwing newspaper,
Haaretz,
has said unnamed senior security officials threatened actions against him if he
reported on attempts by the former head of the Mossad to intimidate the
ex-prosecutor of the international criminal court.
Amid growing concern over Israel’s censorship regime, enforced by the military
censor’s office and by gag orders issued by the courts,
Haaretz published an
article on Wednesday with blacked out words and sentences to demonstrate the
scale of redactions.
In an article published on Thursday, the investigative reporter Gur Megiddo
described how two years ago security officials blocked an attempt by the paper
to report efforts by the then Mossad chief, Yossi Cohen, to threaten the then
ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda. Details of the operation to influence Bensouda
were revealed this week by the
Guardian.
A wider investigation with the Israeli-based magazines
+972 and
Local Call
revealed how Israel has used its intelligence agencies to surveil, hack,
pressure, smear and allegedly threaten senior staff at the international
criminal court to try to derail its inquiries relating to Palestine.
Megiddo described how he had been summoned to meet two officials and threatened
with serious consequences after they became aware he had tried to telephone
Bensouda to discuss Cohen’s efforts to influence her.
Megiddo had been investigating what the Mossad chief had been doing during
three trips he made to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in which he
reportedly enlisted the help of the Congolese president, Joseph Kabila, to
assist with efforts to pressure Bensouda."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
