Washington – President Donald Trump signed the executive order to sanction the International Criminal Court, accusing the body improperly targeting the United States and Israel.
The order includes financial sanctions and visa constraints against unspecified ICC servants and their family members have helped investigations of American citizens or allies. NBC news previously reported on the content of the order in the obtained list of facts.
Last November, the ICC provoked a bipartisan background in Washington by issuing an arrest order for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Director of Israel’s Defense YoAV and several Hamas Leaders at the same time. The Trump Administration order claims that this created “shameful moral equivalence”.
The Court said that there is a reason to believe that Netanyahu and Galant who used the warfare “restricting humanitarian aid and deliberately targeting Israeli in Gaza – the prosecution that Israeli officials were rejected as false and anti-Semitic.
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The signing of the executive account appeared on Thursday Timed to visit Netanyahu in Washington, which included an oval office meeting on Thuesday.
“The recent actions of the ICC against Israel and the United States have become a dangerous precedent, directly endangering the United States, including members of the active service of the Armed Forces, exhibiting them to harassment, abuse and possible arrest,” the Executive Order Text.
In his first period, Trump claimed that ICC has “There are no competencies, no legitimacy and no authority” in the United States, and neither the U.S. Ne Israel are not parties in the so-called Roman Statute, which was founded by the Court.
“ICC is designed as a court for the end, the” entire leaf of the executive account read. “And the United States and Israel maintain strong judicial systems and should never be subject to the competence of the ICC.”
Earlier this year, the house has passed the ICE sanctioning account that later blocked the Democrats Senate.
Neither Israel do not now recognize the competence of the ICC, which is based in The Hague, the Netherlands, and has no police for the implementation of its warrants. Under the Roman Statute created, the signatories are obliged to perform arrest orders, regardless of the act of the accused. But most governments also adhere to the international legal principle that the heads of the state have legal immunity from other courts.
2025-02-06 23:19:00
