The International Criminal Court (ICC) has dropped its case against former Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran on July 31 by a strike blamed on Israel, AFP reports.

ICC prosecutor Karim Khan had requested the court issue an arrest warrant for Haniyeh, along with other top Hamas officials, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

But Khan dropped the application for Haniyeh on August 2 “because of the changed circumstances caused by Mr Haniyeh’s death,” the ICC said in a statement. “As a result, [the court] terminates the proceedings against Mr Ismail Haniyeh,” the statement added.

The court is still weighing Khan’s application for an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant.