Rubio announces sanctions against 4 more ICC officials over cases against Israel, US
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8/20/20252 min read
The Trump administration has imposed sanctions against four more members of the International Criminal Court over their efforts to prosecute Israeli and American officials.
The US has designated Judge Nicolas Yann Guillou of France for signing off last year on arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes committed in Gaza, along with deputy prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji and deputy prosecutor Mame Mandiaye Niang of Senegal for upholding those warrants.
Judge Kimberly Prost of Canada has also been designated for a ruling authorizing the ICC’s investigation into US personnel in Afghanistan.
The four ICC officials join four others who were sanctioned by the Trump administration in June, two of whom were also involved in the warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant.
Today’s sanctions freeze the US assets of the designated officials and block their entry to the country.
Israel and the US view the ICC’s efforts to prosecute Israeli officials as illegitimate, as Jerusalem is not a signatory to the Rome Statute that created the court and because the US doesn’t recognize the Palestinian Authority as a sovereign state with the right to request such action.
Israel also denies the charges brought against Netanyahu and Gallant.
“The United States has been clear and steadfast in our opposition to the ICC’s politicization, abuse of power, disregard for our national sovereignty, and illegitimate judicial overreach,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says in a statement announcing the latest batch of sanctions.
“The court is a national security threat that has been an instrument for lawfare against the United States and our close ally Israel,” he adds.
“It remains the policy of the United States government to take whatever actions we deem necessary to protect our troops, our sovereignty, and our allies from the ICC’s illegitimate and baseless actions,” Rubio continues. “I urge countries that still support the ICC, many of whose freedom was purchased at the price of great American sacrifices, to resist the claims of this bankrupt institution.”
