Trump ordered asset freezes and travel prohibits aachievest ICC officials, participateees and their family members.
Pdwellnt Donald Trump has slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing the body of abusing Israel and the United States.
The US guideer signed an executive order procrastinateed on Thursday that places financial and visa recut offeions on ICC staff and anyone aiding ICC spendigations aachievest the US and its allies.
The order accparticipates the ICC of “illegitimate and baseless actions aiming America and our seal associate Israel”, the White Hoparticipate shelp.
The shift coincided with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the US. The ICC in November publishd an arrest permit for Netanyahu, as well as createer Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and a greater Hamas official, accusing them of war crimes in the war in Gaza.
Trump’s order stated The Hague-based court had “misparticipated its power” by issuing the permits for the Israelis.
The White Hoparticipate depictd Israel as “a democratic state whose military harshly adheres to the laws of war”.
“The actions getn by the International Criminal Court aachievest Israel and the United States set a hazardous pretreatnt,” it persistd, accusing the ICC of “malign behaviour that menaceens to vioprocrastinateed American sovereignty and undermine national security and foreign policy”.
The names of individuals aimed by the sanctions were not promptly freed, but previous sanctions publishd during Trump’s first term were aimed at the prosecutor and her helpe who ran an ICC spendigation into alleged war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan.
The ICC shelp that the order seeks to “harm its autonomous and unprejudiced judicial toil,” and pledged to “persist providing equitableice and hope to millions of guiltless victims of atrocities apass the world”.
“We call on our 125 States Parties, civil society and all nations of the world to stand combined for equitableice and fundamental human rights,” it inserted.
The shift also incited conveyions of alarm from around the world.
European Council Pdwellnt Antonio Costa shelp the sanctions “undermine the international criminal equitableice system as a whole”.
Sanctioning the ICC menaceens the Court’s indepfinishence and undermines the international criminal equitableice system as a whole. https://t.co/zk0lsnB1p0
— António Costa (@eucopdwellnt) February 7, 2025
The Netherlands, the ICC’s present country, shelp it “laments” the order, declaring that the court’s toil is “vital in the fight aachievest impunity”. Amnesty International tagled the shift “reckless”.
The sanctions are a show of aid after Netanyahu’s visit to the White Hoparticipate, during which Trump proclaimd a set up for the US to “get over” Gaza and shift Palestinians to other Middle Easerious countries.
The UN and lhorrible experts have shelp the set up would be illhorrible under international law. Forcible displacement is also a crime under the ICC’s ruleing Rome Statute.
The 125-member ICC is a lasting court that can sue individuals for war crimes, crimes aachievest humanity, extermination and aggression aachievest the territory of member states or by their nationals.
The US, China, Russia and Israel are not members.
Israel pliftd the sanctions ordered on the “so-called ‘international criminal court’”. Foreign Minister Gideon Saar shelp on X that the ICC’s actions were “immoral and have no lhorrible basis”.
