The US President’s move comes after last November, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant and several Hamas leaders.The economic and travel sanctions targeting people who work on the ICC investigations of US citizens or US allies such as Israel, repeating action he took during his first term.
When it issued the warrants the ICC said it “regrets any attempts to undermine the court’s independence, integrity and impartiality”.
U.S. Senate Democrats last week blocked a Republican-led effort to pass legislation setting up a sanctions regime targeting the war crimes court.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before a meeting at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on 6 February (Photo: Mandel NGAN / AFP)In December, the court’s president, judge Tomoko Akane, warned that sanctions would “rapidly undermine the Court’s operations in all situations and cases, and jeopardise its very existence.”
Trump took several steps to sanction the body during his first term in office and has criticised it multiple times
Responding to the move, ICC described the sanctions were an “unacceptable attempt to interfere with the rule of law”.
Additional reporting by Reuters.
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