UK threatened to pull out of ICC over Israeli investigations

The UK government had secretly threated to pull out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and withdraw its ICC funding, if the court handed over arrest warrants to Israel’s leaders, Middle East Eye reported on June 9th.

The then UK foreign secretary for the former Conservative Party government, David Cameron, issued the warning in April last year during a tense conversation with the chief prosecutor of the ICC, Karim Khan.

Khan declared less than a month afterwards that he was eyeing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s former defence minister as well as a number of Hamas leaders.

Middle East Eye