Israel has filed a formal appeal to the International Criminal Court demanding that Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan be removed from all cases involving Israel and that arrest warrants issued for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant be revoked.
Khan is under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct involving his staff, with multiple accusations emerging in recent months. Israel argues that the warrants he pursued against its leaders were politically motivated and issued to divert attention from his own legal troubles.
According to Israel’s Foreign Ministry, the investigations into Netanyahu and Gallant are compromised by what it calls severe and irreparable procedural flaws. The appeal claims the prosecutor acted out of personal and illegitimate motives rather than legal merit.
Israel is pressing the ICC’s appeals chamber to disqualify Khan from further involvement and annul the warrants altogether. The move reflects Israel’s ongoing assertion that the ICC lacks jurisdiction in the first place and that its actions undermine the court’s credibility.
