The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, was preparing to request arrest warrants for two far-right Israeli government ministers before going on leave over a sexual assault allegations probe against him, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

The paper cited current and former officials as having said that the cases against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, focused “on their roles in expanding” illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

A decision on whether to pursue the cases “falls to Khan’s two deputies, and it is unclear how they plan to proceed,” the report noted.

Some official and legal experts, however, “doubt the court would move ahead without a chief prosecutor on the job, given the political risks such a prosecution could bring.”