{"id":2117,"date":"2025-02-06T21:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2025-02-08T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T02:40:10","slug":"trump-sanctions-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/trump-sanctions-icc\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump sanctions ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington is punishing the Hague-based court for issuing charges against Israeli political leaders<\/strong><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) for investigating the US and its allies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The order states that the ICC\u2019s\u00a0targeting of Israeli officials\u00a0has\u00a0\u201cset a dangerous precedent\u201d<\/em> by exposing Americans to \u201charassment, abuse and possible arrest,\u201d<\/em> thereby endangering them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ICC has, without a legitimate basis, asserted jurisdiction over and opened preliminary investigations concerning personnel of the United States and certain of its allies, including Israel, and has further abused its power by issuing baseless arrest warrants targeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant,\u201d <\/em>the order reads.<\/p>\n

\u201dThis malign conduct in turn threatens to infringe upon the sovereignty of the United States and undermines the critical national security and foreign policy work of the United States government and our allies, including Israel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s executive order will enforce financial and visa-related sanctions on individuals and the immediate families of those who support ICC investigations into citizens of the US or its allies.<\/p>\n

The ICC has been preparing for a \u201cswift assault\u201d<\/em> from the new US administration, the Guardian reported last month, citing sources within the organization.<\/p>\n

The measures could affect the ICC\u2019s access to banking and payment systems, IT infrastructure, and insurance providers, the publication said. It could also \u201cparalyze\u201d<\/em> the court\u2019s work and pose \u201can existential threat\u201d<\/em> to its functioning.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the US House of Representatives voted to impose sanctions that would cancel US visas and place financial restrictions on any ICC officials prosecuting US \u201callies.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The US adopted the American Service-Members\u2019 Protection Act in 2002 \u2013 nicknamed \u201cThe Hague Invasion Act.\u201d<\/em> The legislation was designed to protect American military personnel, as well as elected and appointed officials, from prosecution by international legal bodies which Washington has not recognized.<\/p>\n

The act authorizes the US president to use \u201call means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any US or allied personnel\u201d<\/em> detained or imprisoned on behalf of the ICC, since the US is not a party to the Rome Statute regulating its activities. The authorization implies potential military action, leading to the act\u2019s informal name.<\/p>\n

The ICC\u2019s attempt to investigate alleged American war crimes in Afghanistan in 2020 resulted in the US placing sanctions on then prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The court has accused Netanyahu and Gallant of using starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza, as well as deliberately depriving the enclave\u2019s civilian population of essential supplies such as food, water, and medicine without any \u201cobvious military necessity.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Washington says the ICC lacks jurisdiction over Israel, since it is also not a signatory to the Rome Statute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last year, however, the US praised Karim Khan, the same ICC prosecutor who requested arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, when he brought charges against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Moscow is not a party to the agreement establishing the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington is punishing the Hague-based court for issuing charges against Israeli political leaders US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) for investigating the US and its allies.\u00a0\u00a0 The order states that the ICC\u2019s\u00a0targeting of Israeli officials\u00a0has\u00a0\u201cset a dangerous precedent\u201d by exposing Americans to \u201charassment, abuse…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}