Overview

• ICC arrest-warrant applications against Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich on apartheid charges have been finalized but not filed.
• Deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang hold the completed documents and alone can submit them to pre-trial judges.
• Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan prepared the cases before taking leave in May under a United Nations misconduct probe.
• Sources say political pressure, including U.S. sanctions and threats of funding cuts, risks shelving the applications.
• If accepted, these would mark the first time the International Criminal Court pursues apartheid as a crime against humanity.