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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that sanctions the International Criminal Court, after accusing it of attacking the United States and Israel.
The measure imposes financial and visa restrictions on people and their families that help in the investigations of the CPI of American citizens or allies, said the White House before the firm.
In January, the United States House of Representatives voted to sanction the ICC after issuing arrest orders for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for accusations of war crimes in Gaza, which Israel denies . The ICC also issued an arrest warrant for a Hamas commander.
At that time, the CPI said “regrets any attempt to undermine the independence, integrity and impartiality of the court.”
The United States is not a member of the CPI and has repeatedly rejected any jurisdiction by the body on US officials or citizens.
The order of President Trump signed on Thursday accuses the CPI based in the Hague to create a “shameful moral equivalence” between Hamas and Israel by issuing arrest orders for Israeli leaders and a Hamas commander at the same time, according to a Information sheet circulated by whites. House before.
He also says that the ICC is placing limitations in Israel’s right to self -defense, while accusing the body of ignoring Iran and antiisraelis groups.
Trump has repeatedly criticized the CPI and took several steps to sanction the body during his first term in office.
At that time, he also imposed sanctions on CPI officials who were investigating whether US forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
The order allowed the United States to block the assets of the CPI employees and prevent them from entering the US.
In response, the ICC said that sanctions were an “unacceptable attempt to interfere with the rule of law.”
Founded in 2002, following the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the genocide of Rwanda, the CPI was formed to investigate alleged atrocities.
The court can only deal with crimes committed after July 2002, when the Rome Statute, which formed the CPI, entered into force.
More than 120 countries have ratified the statute, while another 34 have signed and can ratify in the future.
Neither the United States nor Israel are part of the Rome Statute.
The CPI is a last resort court and is intended to intervene only when national authorities cannot or may not process.
The predecessor of Trump, Joe Biden, also criticized the arrest orders of the CPI by Netanyahu and Gallant, qualifying the “scandalous” measure and saying that there was no equivalence between Israel and Hamas.
