President Donald Trump intends to approve an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC), NBC News reported Thursday. The order will accuse the ICC of "improperly targeting the United States and Israel," the fact sheet says. The U.S. will issue not only financial sanctions but will "issue visa restrictions against unspecified ICC officials and their family members found to have assisted in ICC investigations of U.S. citizens or allies," said NBC. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington this week to meet with Trump and other leaders. The ICC issued a warrant for his arrest last November as well as a number of Hamas leaders for the conflict in Gaza. The Trump order will reportedly call the arrest warrant a “shameful moral equivalency.”
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday to sanction the International Criminal Court for targeting the United States and its allies, such as Israel, a White House official said. The order will place financial and visa sanctions on individuals and their family members who assist in ICC investigations of U.S. citizens or U.S. allies, said the official. The move by Trump comes after U.S. Senate Democrats last week blocked a Republican-led effort to sanction the ICC in protest at its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over Israel's campaign in Gaza. Netanyahu is currently visiting Washington.
Donald Trump will sign an executive order this afternoon sanctioning International Criminal Court (ICC) officials which will likely extend to British lawyer Karim Khan, its chief prosecutor. The order will place financial and visa sanctions on individuals and their family members who assist in ICC investigations of US citizens or the country’s allies such as Israel. The order does not specify which officials have been hit by the US travel ban and financial sanctions but they will likely extend to Mr Khan, the British lawyer who acts as the court’s lead prosecutor. The White House declined to name the individuals who will be sanctioned.
