Qatar Reportedly Vowed to ‘Look After’ Disgraced ICC Prosecutor if He Targeted Netanyahu
Prime Minister Netanyahu: “The ICC is a corrupt court that serves as a lawfare platform used by rogue regimes.”
Pressure mounts on the disgraced chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, who was forced to “step aside” from his position in May 2025 after serious sexual assault allegations. Newly revealed witness testimony states that Qatar promised to “look after” him if he continued the witch hunt against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday
Following a May 2024 request by Khan, the Hague-based ICC issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for the crime of overseeing a military operation to free 240 hostages from Hamas’ captivity in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre. By issuing the warrant, the ICC was requiring its 125 member states, including most of the European nations, to arrest the sitting Israeli prime minister and hand him over to the kangaroo court.
The latest testimony and supporting evidence also indicate that Republican Senator Lindsey Graham was a target of the operation. The Qatar-linked “intelligence operation also sought to target two Americans: Tom Lynch, the senior ICC official who first reported the assault allegation, and Sen. Lindsey Graham,” the business daily added.
Buying off the ICC Prosecutor.
Qatar launched an intelligence operation & promised to “look after” Karim Khan over targeting Israel. When the operation’s manager was asked if backing came from a sheikh or the state, he said: “the state.”
A crooked prosecutor. A corrupted court.…
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) April 28, 2026
The WSJ reports:
The trouble isn’t over for Karim Khan. He’s the International Criminal Court prosecutor who requested arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders in 2024, shortly after learning he had been accused of sexual assault. He took leave in May 2025, and this month the court’s governors voted to advance disciplinary proceedings. Now a witness statement says the Qatari government promised to “look after” Mr. Khan if he moved against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
This builds on the Guardian newspaper’s November report on a Qatar-linked private intelligence operation by at least two firms, Highgate and Elicius Intelligence, hoping to discredit Mr. Khan’s alleged assault victim. Elicius didn’t reply to requests for comment. Highgate said in a statement that it had worked on a file in defense of the ICC, but denied it was commissioned by a government entity or aimed at discrediting any individual.
The new witness statement is by a person familiar with that operation who requests anonymity. We’ve reviewed it along with supporting audio recordings. The statement was submitted to the FBI to request an inquiry and is known to several Members of Congress. It suggests the private intelligence operation also sought to target two Americans: Tom Lynch, the senior ICC official who first reported the assault allegation, and Sen. Lindsey Graham. Several ICC officials who became targets have been interviewed by the NCTV, the Dutch counterterror agency, two sources confirm.
In recordings, private investigators discuss their intelligence operation’s connection to what seems to be Qatar, which they call the “client country.” In writing, one investigator instructs others to say “client” to describe “Q country.” Two sources familiar with the intelligence operation tell us Qatar was ultimately the client.
The witness statement says that a source of Elicius’s had claimed—albeit without providing evidence—that Israel’s Mossad believed Mr. Khan to be a Qatari agent. This led the private intelligence team to discuss the ICC prosecutor.
“I spoke to the client about it,” the intelligence operation’s manager is heard saying in an Aug. 5 recording, “and they weren’t surprised that it had leaked that they were wrapping their arms around him.”
Around “KK”—Karim Khan—a researcher clarified.“It’s not that long that they wrapped their arms around him,” the manager continued, per the recording and the witness statement. “It’s all in the context of issuing the warrant. That was basically the deal. He was like, ‘I want to issue the warrant, but I’m terrified to do it.’ And they said, ‘if you do it, then we’ll look after you.’”
The intelligence operation’s manager was asked whether the support came from an individual sheikh or from the Qatari state. He said, “No, it’s the state.”
The new revelations vindicate Prime Minister Netanyahu’s assertion that he is being persecuted for defending Israel against the biggest terrorist attack in its history.
“The ICC is a corrupt and morally bankrupt institution that should be closed,” the Israel prime pinister’s office posted on X after the damning revelation came to light. “Israel waged a just war by just means against a terrorist organization that slaughtered our people.”
PMO:
The ICC is a corrupt and morally bankrupt institution that should be closed. It was clear from Day 1 that there was no merit to the absurd accusations against the State of Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu. Israel waged a just war by just means against a terrorist… pic.twitter.com/EqPqdrqdLf
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) April 28, 2026
The news comes in the backdrop of media revelations that a “Qatar-linked intelligence operation” had targeted a woman who accused Khan of sexual misconduct. “The woman who alleges she was sexually abused by the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court has been targeted by private intelligence firms as part of a covert operation said to have taken place on behalf of Qatar,” The Guardian newspaper reported in November 2025.
The newspaper uncovered the details of the Qatari-run “intrusive operation” aimed at the victim and her family, including her child. “According to leaked files seen by the Guardian and people familiar with the operation, one of the firms sought her passport details and other sensitive information, including about her child,” the British daily continued. “A core aim of the intelligence firms was to find evidence that could be used to undermine her credibility and the abuse claims she has made against the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan.”
Khan may have cooked up the “war crimes” case against Prime Minister Netanyahu to bury sexual assault allegations surfacing against him, subsequent media reports suggested. “An investigation by The Associated Press last year found that two court employees, in whom the alleged victim confided, reported the alleged misconduct in May 2024 to the court’s independent watchdog,” the AP News reported. “That was a few weeks before Khan sought arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defense minister, and three Hamas leaders on war crimes charges.”
In February 2025, President Trump reimposed sanctions on ICC, reversing President Joe Biden’s decision to lift Trump-era restrictions on the kangaroo court. The rogue legal body with a history of going after Israeli and U.S. servicemen engaged in combat operations against global Islamist terror.
Serious allegations in Wall Street Journal: Witness says Qatar promised to “look after” ICC prosecutor Karim Khan if he moved against Israel’s leaders.
The credibility crisis at the ICC just deepened. Accountability must apply to prosecutors too, @KarimKhanQC @IntlCrimCourt. https://t.co/G2chbX7jEM
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) April 28, 2026
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nobody in their maga mind would trust qtar
but we can play them the same way they play us
as long as we have a djtrump in the wh
Tucker is building a house there
hopefully made out of straw
Perhaps this wretched Qatari prostitute and shill for Muslim supremacism/Islamofascism will put his wife in a hijab/burqa/niqab, now that he is stupidly and contemptibly waxing rhapsodic about the alleged glories, moral superiority and integrity of the ideology of “Submission.”
Question: When will the US wakeup about Qatar’s hostility towards the West.
Answer: Never, Qatar is too successful with their bribes,
So Tucker Carlson is behind this
That’s “Tucker Qatarlson,” to you!
It is long past time to treat the greasy, duplicitous, two-faced and terrorism-sponsoring/funding Qatari regime like the enemy that it is. No more fictional accommodations, deference and diplomatic niceties. Pakistan deserves the same treatment, too.
Come on, Mister Art of The Deal, what are you waiting for?
Tell them if they convict Khan, you’ll throw in Graham.
Give them back their jet, you know there is something wrong with that jet
Take it apart, dissect it, piece by piece
“Credibility crisis” implies there was credibility to start. The ICC has been a lot of things since it’s founding but it hasn’t been that. It is nothing more than an attempt by American and Jew hating globalist bureaucrats to attempt to place themselves in control of other nations foreign policy.