Overview
- Israel’s Foreign Ministry said it submitted the request on Monday seeking Khan’s removal from Israel-related proceedings and asking judges to declare the arrest warrants of no effect.
- The government’s filing contends the prosecutor acted from improper personal motives tied to sexual-misconduct allegations raised by an ICC employee and a second complainant.
- Khan went on leave in May as the ICC opened an internal inquiry into the complaints, according to reporting cited in the coverage.
- A leaked phone recording reported by Jewish Insider captures Khan saying the complaint was leaked to try to get rid of the warrants for Palestine, while the complainant said she was accused of being a Mossad plant.
- Israel said the petition does not preclude its separate challenges to the warrants’ validity on jurisdictional and evidentiary grounds, as outside reporting noted mixed assessments of the filing’s prospects.