Brendan Rowland @PunkLuke

82 state members of the ICC just dealt a more fatal blow to the court than the US & Israel combined. And yet the president of the political body that put this suicide mission into motion is acting like they saved the ICC. Shameful & shameless.

Paivi Kaukoranta @PASPKaukoranta

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Statement of the #ASP President following the conclusion of disciplinary proceedings involving Prosecutor Karim Khan #ICC

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Each time something like this happens, it should remind us that liberation should and cannot depend on institutions like the UN or the ICC, which were built by imperial powers, and continue to be utilised to protect them at all costs. Liberation will only come from the ground.

Tayab Ali @tayab_ali_

a day ago

🚨Press statement - Removal of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan KC   NEW YORK: Today the Assembly of States Parties voted to remove Karim Khan KC from the office of Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. ⬇️

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ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, who issued the arrest warrants for israeli war criminals Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant, has been removed from office

Scotland gained a pro-independence majority and we are told by a person who was democratically not even elected as prime minister that we should not be allowed a referendum to let the people of Scotland decide their future. Make that make sense, Scotland wants independence

The interception of an explosive device by An Garda Síochána in County Monaghan has prevented devastation. Those responsible have no support and no vision for our island and our communities. Our young people deserve to grow up in a world free from violence, with every opportunity to prosper in peace. These actions serve only a wreckers' agenda, seeking to undermine peace, progress, and the brighter future that people across our country are building together. But they will not succeed. We will keep moving forward.

BREAKING: ICC Member States Dismiss Chief Prosecutor The International Criminal Court voted to fire Karim Khan over sexual misconduct claims. He denies the accusations and says they’re retaliation for his warrants against Israeli officials. Read now: zeteo.com/p/breaking-icc…

BREAKING! Armed Israelis are escalating DEADLY assaults against defenseless Palestinians in the West Bank! They have reportedly just shot in cold blood five men in Tal village and Far'ata/Qalqilya. Their leaders openly talk of #Gazification THESE CRIMINALS MUST BE STOPPED!

Labour's support for Israel's genocide and war crimes isn't something 'to change the tone on'. Andy Burnham, your most senior ministers have said it's genocide. What are you waiting for? End UK's complicity now. Ban arms sales. Full sanctions.

Faye Brown @FayeBrownSky

a day ago

NEW: Green Party leader Zack Polanski has written to Louise Haigh to ask if she stands by her past comments calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide. On 4 June last year, Haigh said in parliament it was ‘impossible to conclude that this is anything less than a genocide’. She

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🚨 So this makes a little more sense now doesn’t it - while we were preparing a legal case against the allegations at the ICC - which resulted in the Judicial Panel finding no misconduct or breach of duty by Mr Khan - Israel had a whole task force dedicated to making sure whatever the evidence was he would be removed anyway! If the ICC had an ounce of credibility left they would launch an investigation into this clear indication of political interference and manipulation of due process. Who did the task force get to?

גיא עזריאל Guy Azriel @GuyAz

a day ago

🚨Against the backdrop of the dismissal of International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan, a senior Israeli official tells me that Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar played an active role in efforts to advance the move. According to the official, Sa’ar oversaw a dedicated

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Read this in full 👇 The ICC-Karim Khan saga: a timeline Palestine investigation, and the pressure campaign begins (2021–2023) February 2021 Karim Khan is elected ICC chief prosecutor by the Assembly of States Parties (ASP). March 2021 Khan's predecessor, Fatou Bensouda, opens the ICC's investigation into alleged war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories. 21 June 2021 Khan takes the oath of office, becoming the third person to hold the post since the court's founding in 2002. Summer 2022 The woman who later becomes the complainant in the sexual misconduct case alleges a separate senior ICC official behaved inappropriately towards her. 31 August 2022 Khan writes to the ASP president raising her concerns about that other official; external investigators are appointed in October 2022 with her cooperation. 11 December 2023 That separate external investigation concludes there was "no unsatisfactory conduct" by the official concerned. 17 November 2023 Five states (South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros, Djibouti) formally refer the Palestine situation to the prosecutor after the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli war on Gaza. December 2023 Khan visits Israel (kibbutzim, the Nova festival site) and meets Palestinian officials including President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Lead-up to the warrants (January–April 2024) January 2024 Khan convenes an independent, seven-member expert panel to assess whether the legal threshold for arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his then Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders had been met. The panel unanimously concludes in March the process was "fair, rigorous and independent" and sufficient material existed to request warrants. 16 March 2024 Khan's legal team concludes it will be in a position to apply for the Israeli and Hamas warrants by the end of April. 21 March 2024 Khan orders a "complementarity" check into whether Israel was investigating the alleged crimes itself; his office concludes it was not. 25 March 2024 Khan informs the US administration of his decision and that warrants would be sought by the end of April. 15 April 2024 In London, Khan tells UK Justice Secretary Alex Chalk he will apply for the warrants; he had wanted to brief Foreign Secretary David Cameron directly, but Cameron was abroad. 19 April 2024 A senior US official warns Khan by phone of "disastrous consequences" if he proceeds; Khan says he rejected this, citing Israel's lack of cooperation. 23 April 2024 While Khan is on an official visit to Venezuela, Cameron phones him and says issuing warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant would be "like dropping a hydrogen bomb". Cameron spoke aggressively, told Khan he would "lose the dressing room" and be seen as "losing the plot", and said the UK would "defund the court and withdraw from the Rome Statute" if warrants were issued. Khan replied that this would mean "the rules-based system would be dead". In an account of the episode in MEE journalist Peter Oborne's book, Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza, a source close to Cameron said that the call with Khan did take place and was “robust”. But the source said that rather than making a threat, Cameron pointed out that strong voices in the Conservative Party would push for defunding the ICC and withdrawing from the Rome Statute. 24 April 2024 12 Republican US senators (including Marco Rubio) send Khan a letter warning "Target Israel and we will target you." 25 April 2024 British journalist Douglas Murray writes in the New York Post that Khan will seek warrants within days, before this is public knowledge. 26 April 2024 Netanyahu publicly criticises the ICC on social media, saying: “Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defence.” 28 April 2024 Israel says it will allow Khan to visit Israel and Gaza, an unprecedented offer that delays the warrant applications. 29 April 2024 A colleague of Khan's raises harassment allegations against him in a private conversation. 30 April–1 May 2024 Khan describes meetings with western states and US officials that he characterises as efforts to dissuade him from proceeding. Warrants filed, allegations surface (May 2024) 2 May 2024 The sexual misconduct/harassment allegations are first put to Khan in person by members of his team, on the same day, per his later ICC submission, that he had been planning to announce the Netanyahu/Gallant warrants. Khan separately meets Dutch counterterrorism officials over a security briefing about suspected Mossad activity in The Hague. 3 May 2024 A colleague of Khan refers the harassment allegations to the ICC's Internal Oversight Mechanism (IOM). 7 May 2024 The IOM's first inquiry closes after the complainant declines to cooperate. 19–20 May 2024 With Israel's promised permission letter for the Gaza visit still not delivered, Khan cancels the trip and, on 20 May, announces he is seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif. In his public statement he says: "I insist that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence the officials of this Court must cease immediately." 21 May 2024 David Cameron publicly calls the warrant decision "a mistake", accusing the ICC of drawing a "moral equivalence" between Israeli and Hamas leaders. 10 June 2024 The outgoing Conservative government files a formal objection disputing ICC jurisdiction over Israeli nationals; the incoming Labour government drops the objection the following month, after the July 2024 general election. Leaks, a second complaint, arrest warrants (October–November 2024) 17 October 2024 An anonymous Twitter account begins circulating details of the harassment allegations against Khan. 19 October 2024 The Mail on Sunday reports that ASP President Paivi Kaukoranta has confirmed the allegations exist; an official ASP statement follows later on 24 October. October–November 2024 A second IOM investigation opens and closes after the complainant again declines to cooperate. 11 November 2024 The ASP president subsequently decides to seek an outsourced UN investigation into Khan via the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS). 21 November 2024 ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I unanimously approves and issues the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, the first time the court has targeted officials of a western-allied state. It also rejected two Israeli challenges to the case under Articles 19 and 18 of the Rome Statute. Sanctions and threats (February–August 2025) 6 February 2025 Trump issues Executive Order 14203 imposing sanctions on ICC officials, with Khan as the initial target, over the Netanyahu/Gallant warrants; his US visa is revoked, his wife and children are barred from the US, and UK bank accounts are frozen. 19 May 2025 Khan takes voluntary leave pending the OIOS investigation; deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang take over the leadership of his office. May 2025 Shortly before going on leave, Khan had been preparing new warrant applications for Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir over West Bank settlement expansion. 5 June 2025 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces sanctions against four ICC judges: Beti Hohler (Slovenia) and Reine Alapini-Gansou (Benin) for their role in the Netanyahu/Gallant arrest warrants; and Luz del Carmen Ibanez Carranza (Peru) and Solomy Balungi Bossa (Uganda) for authorising the Afghanistan investigation. 9 July 2026 The US sanctions UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese over her cooperation with the ICC. 16 July 2025 ICC judges reject an Israeli request to withdraw the Netanyahu/Gallant warrants pending Israel's jurisdictional appeal. 20 August 2025 US imposes sanctions on judges Kimberly Prost (Canada) and Nicolas Yann Guillou (France), plus deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan (Fiji) and Mame Mandiaye Niang (Senegal). 4 September 2025 US sanctions three Palestinian NGOs for cooperating with the ICC. 13 October 2025 MEE reveals that Margareta Kassangana, a Polish diplomat and ASP vice president, met privately with Khan's accuser to discuss the case before the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties, the court's govening body, referred the matter to the UN's OIOS in late 2024. MEE also reports on a recorded summer 2025 phone call in which another bureau member, Uganda's ambassador Mirjam Blaak, is heard telling a colleague she believed Khan "may not come back", describing the complainant in personal terms, and repeating Netanyahu's since-debunked claim that Khan rushed the Netanyahu/Gallant warrants to pre-empt a "honey trap" defence. Disqualification bid and secret Smotrich filing (November 2025–May 2026) 17 November 2025 Israel formally asks the ICC to disqualify Khan from the Palestine investigation and withdraw the Netanyahu/Gallant warrants, citing the misconduct allegations as evidence of bias. The court has yet to rule on the request. 3 December 2025 The ASP's annual assembly in The Hague issues a declaration resisting US demands to drop the Palestine/Afghanistan investigations and amend the Rome Statute, without naming the US directly. 10 December 2025 Khan submits a statement to the ICC's appeal chamber responding to Israel's disqualification request, describing for the first time a "senior UK government official" (confirmed by MEE as Cameron) who threatened UK funding withdrawal. 11 December 2025 The OIOS delivers its finalised report (150 pages, with roughly 5,000 pages of supporting evidence) to the ASP-appointed judicial panel for a legal determination. 18 December 2025 The US sanctions judges Gocha Lordkipanidze (Georgia) and Erdenebalsuren Damdin (Mongolia) after their rejection of Israel's appeal against the Gaza investigation. 22 January 2026 Responding to a Freedom of Information request, the UK Foreign Office confirms for the first time that the Cameron–Khan call took place on 23 April 2024. 9 March 2026 MEE breaks the story that a three-judge panel (Leona Theron of South Africa, Paul Lemmens of Belgium and Seymour Panton of Jamaica) unanimously concludes the OIOS findings "do not establish misconduct or breach of duty" by Khan. Lemmens, in a separate opinion, says he has "serious doubts" the allegations could ever meet the required standard, but joins the unanimous conclusion. 23 March 2026 MEE reports that some bureau member states seek to sabotage the judges' panel's report. 2 April 2026 A majority of the bureau votes to disregard the panel's conclusion and make its own assessment of the evidence. MEE names the 15 states that voted this way as Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Ecuador, Finland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Slovenia, South Korea and Switzerland. 2 April 2026 The prosecutor's office secretly files an arrest warrant application for Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, alleging war crimes, crimes against humanity, and apartheid over West Bank settlement policy. It was the same warrant prepared by Khan before he went on leave but, as MEE reported, it was shelved for about a year. Khan speaks out publicly for first time (April–May 2026) 29 April 2026 Khan gives his first public comments since going on leave, in an interview with journalist Mehdi Hasan on the outlet Zeteo. He says he thought the judges' panel finding "was the end of the matter" and is "perplexed" the bureau didn't close the case immediately. He calls the theory that he rushed the Netanyahu/Gallant warrants to distract from the allegations "baloney", noting that he told the US and others he would seek warrants in March 2024, before any allegation was raised. He says Russian and Israeli intelligence had been conducting "close surveillance" of him. 8 May 2026 In an interview with MEE’s David Hearst Podcast, Khan accuses bureau members of running a "dangerous", biased campaign against him and says the disciplinary process is a "Khan-made process... specific to me". Bureau's decision, run-up to vote (June–July 2026) 8 June 2026 The bureau votes to suspend Khan and, by a two-thirds majority, finds he committed "serious misconduct". MEE reports the vote as 14 in favour (Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Ecuador, Finland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland), four against (Kenya, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda), three abstaining (Bolivia, Bosnia, South Africa). The confidential decision, seen by MEE, frames the finding as Khan having "engaged in a sexual relationship" with the complainant that was improper given the power imbalance, a notable shift from the original non-consensual-conduct allegation. Khan denies any sexual relationship; the complainant's account centres on non-consensual conduct. Khan's lawyers say this reframed allegation was never put to him. 18 June 2026 MEE reveals the bureau has set 24 July, at UN headquarters in New York, as the date and venue for the full ASP's special session. 13 July 2026 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio explicitly threatens that Washington would "dismantle the ICC – brick by brick, if necessary". 16 July 2026 CNN airs an interview with Khan’s accuser going public for the first time, standing by her allegations of non-consensual sex. 17 July 2026 ASP President Kaukoranta writes to member states confirming the bureau failed to reach the required majority on two separate retaliation allegations against Khan (from other staff members), which are now closed as unproven, distinct from the sexual misconduct finding still going to the full Assembly. 18 July 2026 Josep Borrell, the former EU foreign policy chief, writes that the bureau's process amounts to a "political vote" serving what he calls a US-Israeli "offensive" to "defang" the court, citing Rubio's stated intent to dismantle the ICC "brick by brick". 21 July 2026 Khan's legal team issues an open letter to ASP members stating that formal channels for Khan to make representations have been closed, that the ASP president discouraged states from meeting with his team, and that Khan and his lawyers have been denied accreditation to attend the 24 July session. 24 July 2026 (scheduled) The full ASP votes by secret ballot at UN headquarters, New York, under Article 46 of the Rome Statute, on the single combined motion covering both the misconduct finding and Khan's removal.

Gazze hastanelerinde gönüllü olarak görev yapan Japon hemşire, Japonya'ya döndükten sonra basın toplantısı yaptı: "Gazze halkı neyi yanlış yaptı? Hayatın ağırlığı herkese eşit değil mi? Bu dünya bir türlü adil olamadı. Bütün dünya onlara saldırıyor, birey olarak hiçbir hakları yok… Hem topraklarını işgal ediyorsunuz hem de onları öldürüyorsunuz. Belki bu sözler bile dünyaya ulaşmayacak, hatta görmezden gelinecek… Filistin halkı varoluş mücadelesi veriyor… Gazze halkının sesini dünyaya duyurmaya çalışacağım…”

Luxembourg will not renew Israel Bonds for sale in Europe. Ireland, the current host country, and other EU states, must do the same and say no to Israel bonds since the proceeds could contribute to Israel’s genocide and other atrocity crimes against Palestinians.

Andy Burnham could have ended UK arms sales to Israel the day he became Prime Minister. Instead he chose to lick the boot of genocidal arms manufacturers like Elbit Systems while the bombs continue to fall on Gaza. Every day Britain supplies those weapons, it is complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people. Every day Arms Sales Andy refuses to stop them, so is he. Shame on him.

Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ

4 days ago

Addressing the Farnborough International Airshow, the Prime Minister @andyburnham outlines how Defence and the businesses behind it will support the re-industrialisation of our country 👇

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I have written to the new Prime Minister to ask if he will support my Bill for a public inquiry into Britain's complicity in genocide. This government faces a simple choice: be on the right side, or block our efforts to expose the truth.

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İran Dışişleri Bakanı Abbas Arakçi: “Mısır, Süveyş Kanalı'ndan her geçiş için 200.000 ile 700.000 dolar arasında ücret alıyor; büyük konteyner gemileri veya tankerler için bu rakam 1 milyon doları aşabiliyor. Türkiye, İstanbul Boğazı için geçiş ücreti alıyor. Kanada, St. Lawrence Deniz Yolu için ücret alıyor. Panama, her geçişten 100.000 ile 450.000 dolar arası ücret tahsil ediyor; büyük Neopanamax gemilerinin Panama Kanalı'ndan geçiş maliyeti 500.000 doları buluyor. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, St. Lawrence Deniz Yolu için ücret alıyor. İran ise onlarca yıldır Hürmüz Boğazı için ücret almayı reddetti. Geçişleri ücretsiz hale getirdi! Maruz kaldığı tüm karalamalara, yaptırımlara ve izolasyona rağmen bunu yaptı. Ve hâlâ buradaki "kötü adamın" İran olduğuna inanmamı mı bekliyorsunuz?”

Exclusive: The decision to close a war crimes probe into UK nationals who fought for Israel amid the Gaza genocide has been reversed by the Met Police, we can reveal. The 240-page referral was first submitted by the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) in August 2025. It alleged that ten UK nationals, including dual citizens, had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity – such as ‘wilful killing, extermination, attacking civilians, and deportation or forcible transfer of population’ – while fighting for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) in Gaza. The Met initially responded by narrowing its focus to four identifiable British nationals before informing the claimants in April 2026 that it would not pursue any criminal investigation. The move comes after British-Palestinian human rights campaigner Lubna Speitan, who is represented by PILC, threatened judicial review proceedings against the Met. In a pre-action letter, PILC said the Met had wrongly applied its own policy and failed to take into account relevant considerations such as the full range of evidential pathways available for an investigation. Read the full story here: declassifieduk.org/met-police-re-…

Palestine’s Jerusalem governorate says more than 1,300 Israeli settlers have entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound since the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av began on Wednesday evening. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/c2pwkb

What has changed is not that Western leaders fail to speak up—that’s always been the case. With Israel’s genocide in Gaza, they actively take part, arm it, defending the perpetrators, attack those who try to prosecute it, criminalise those who protest rather than those who commit it. That’s why I called my 2025 book The New Age of Genocide. I’m glad to see that Omer is making a similar argument.

Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof

4 days ago

.@bartov_omer warns that we may be incentivizing genocide by failing to provide accountability. He focuses on Gaza; I'd note that Sudan fits that model as well, for world leaders refuse to speak up about the UAE's role in financing mass atrocities by the RSF in Sudan.

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More than £53 billion will be needed to rebuild 'only part of what was destroyed' amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza, according to a new report 👇 thenational.scot/news/26401934.…