Israel to seek US aid in selecting replacement for outgoing ICJ Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, who aided PA efforts to prosecute Israelis.

Israel will ask the Biden administration to continue the US' cooperating in an effort to prevent the moves made against the Jewish State by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

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The Israel Hayom newspaper reported that the first move that Jerusalem will seek to work on jointly with the new administration is to coordinate the selection of the next chief prosecutor of the tribunal in the coming weeks.

The current prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has served for the past nine years and is expected to step down in the coming weeks. In recent years, she and the International Criminal Court have been the subject of very harsh sanctions by the Trump administration, following its decision to investigate alleged American and Israeli soldiers.

US President Joe Biden and his administration have not yet taken a position on how they will respond to the court's actions.

Unlike the previous chief prosecutors of the tribunal, who mainly investigated war crimes in third world countires, Bensouda maintained that all crimes against humanity should be investigated, even those allegedly committed by the superpowers. She examined charges attributed to British and American soldiers. In the case of Israel, she instructed the Palestinian Authority on how to be admitted to the tribunal, promoted PA complaints and rejected all the arguments that Israel submitted. Read more at Arutz-7