The president of the United States, Donald Trump, This Thursday has signed a decree to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court in response to its investigations on American officials and Israel, according to the White House.
The presidential order establishes financial restrictions and … of visas to individuals and relatives who have cooperated with the courts of the Court against US citizens or their allies.
Trump’s decision has occurred after several Democratic senators block a republican attempt to sanction the same court for issuing arrest orders against the Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, In relation to the military campaign in Gaza.
Netanyahu visited Trump in Washington on Tuesday and thanked his support. He is the first leader that the White House receives in Trump’s second mandate.
The Court, according to sources cited by Reuters this week, had already taken preventive measures to protect your staff from possible US sanctions, including the payment of wages three months in advance of the risk of financial restrictions that could paralyze their operations.
In December, the president of the Court, Judge Tomoko Akane, warned that US sanctions could quickly undermine the operation of the Court and even put their existence at risk.
It was not the first time that the Court faced Washington reprisals. In 2020, during the first administration of Trump, the US imposed sanctions on the then prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and one of his main advisors for the court investigation into alleged war crimes committed by US troops in Afghanistan.
The International Criminal Court, with 125 members, has jurisdiction to process individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and aggression. However, the United States, China, Russia and Israel are not part of the court because they have not signed their treaty.
Joe Biden described the arrest warrant of Netyahu dictated by the Court last year.
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