THE HAGUE, Netherlands The government of the Netherlands calls hosting the International Criminal Court a huge responsibility rooted in its national constitution. Along with 92 other nations, the country endorsed a statement on Friday calling the court an essential component of the international peace and security architecture that should be free from intimidation or political interference and pressure.

But Dutch authorities have also reportedly known since 2015 about Israeli harassment of court officials and sources trying to inform the ICCs work. And Israeli espionage targeting the organization is allegedly ongoing.

What has the Netherlands done about it?

Thats what Kati Piri, a prominent member of the countrys House of Representatives, wants to know. On May 29, she sent a formal inquiry to the Dutch government about alleged Israeli meddling with the ICC since 2015, when the court began investigating apparent violations of international law in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict once Palestine joined the ICC as a member state.

According to May 28 reports from The Guardian , the Israeli-Palestinian magazine +972 and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call , Israel is surveilling dozens of officials at the court, as well as other international officials and Palestinian rights activists, and has repeatedly threatened former ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. Israeli officials allegedly subjected Bensouda to shock encounters including a seeming attempt at bribery at her home in The Hague and an ambush by Mossad director Yossi Cohen in New York and suggested they would harm her family, including by damaging her husbands career.

Taken together, the alleged gambits constitute what a former high-ranking Israeli intelligence official described to The Guardian as a war of Israeli espionage and pressure against the ICC, to undercut its attempts at accountability for potential war crimes by Israelis. Israels government and military have firmly denied meddling with the court, accusing journalists of allegations meant to hurt the state of Israel.

I cannot imagine the Dutch government having no information about these practices. Then, of course, the logical question is: What were the political consequences and were there any? If not, how can we as a host country pretend that we are protecting these international institutions? Piri told HuffPost last week. Like the other 123 state parties to the ICC, the Netherlands is bound by its founding Rome Statute, whose Article 70 criminalizes interfering with the courts administration of justice.

Even if they tried everything, they were not able to prevent this harassment from taking place, Piri said.