> The intelligence was also used by the Israeli military to retroactively open investigations into incidents that were of interest to the ICC, to try to prove that Israel’s legal system is capable of holding its own to account.<p>This alone is an extremely noteworthy revelation. The ICC has a principle of “complementarity” where it will defer to local prosecutors, <i>if they’re robust and vigorous in prosecuting crimes</i>. This severly undermines the Israeli narrative that they have such a system.