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Reuters: Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting The International Criminal Court [1]

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Date: 2025-02-06

Reuters is reporting that, in what can be described as a crime against humanity and an obstruction of justice, Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday targeting the International Criminal Court. The move comes in response to the Court issuing an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.

International Criminal Court investigations of U.S. citizens or U.S. allies such as Israel, repeating action he took during his first term. WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday authorized economic and travel sanctions targeting people who work oninvestigations of U.S. citizens or U.S. allies such as Israel, repeatinghe took during his first term.

wanted by the ICC over the war in the Gaza Strip. The move coincides with a visit to Washington by Israel’s Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu, who - along with his former defense minister and a leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas - isover the

imposed sanctions on then-prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and one of her top aides over the ICC’s investigation into alleged war crimes by American troops in Afghanistan. It was unclear how quickly the U.S. would announce names of people sanctioned. During the first Trump administration in 2020, Washingtonon then-prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and one of her top aides over the ICC’s investigation into alleged war crimes by American troops in Afghanistan.

The ICC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The sanctions include freezing any U.S. assets of those designated and barring them and their families from visiting the United States.

The 125-member ICC is a permanent court that can prosecute individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression against the territory of member states or by their nationals. The United States, China, Russia and Israel are not members.

Trump signed the executive order after U.S. Senate Democrats last week blocked a Republican-led effort to pass legislation setting up a sanctions regime targeting the war crimes court.

taken measures to shield staff from possible U.S. sanctions, paying salaries three months in advance, as it braced for financial restrictions that could cripple the war crimes tribunal, sources told Reuters last month. The court hasfrom possible U.S. sanctions, paying salaries three months in advance, as it braced for financial restrictions that could cripple the war crimes tribunal, sources told Reuters last month.

In December, the court’s president, judge Tomoko Akane, warned that sanctions would “rapidly undermine the Court's operations in all situations and cases, and jeopardise its very existence.”

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