according to icc officials they threatened bensouda saying you should help us and let us take care of your family. those are the kind of scare tactics you would expect from a mob boss not high ranking government official. israel's pressure campaign was far beyond one prosecutor to dozens of other international officials related to the probe. human rights groups that provided the prosecutor's office with the attacks became targets of the operations. according to numerous sources, they wanted to delegitimize the groups that i were mobilized at the highest branches, the intelligence community and the powerful military. it went to the very top. the prime minister benjamin netanyahu said to have taken a keen interest in the campaign sending intelligence teams instructions in areas of interest regarding their monitoring of icc officials. the pressure campaign did not end in june of 2021 when he replaced bersouda. intelligence continued to follow the activities. despite all of this, years of threats and acts of intimidation against the icc, the court's investigation was through to the very e