Washington – President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order, signed an executive order banning the International Criminal Court on the Israeli investigation.
Neither the US nor the Israel is a member of the court or recognizes, who after the Hamas attack against Israel in October 2023 after Hamas’s attack on his military response to Gaza for alleged war crimes for crimes for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Has released. Palestinians, including children, have been killed during the Israeli army reaction.
Trump signed the order, accused the ICC of “illegitimate and unfounded works in the US and our close aide Israel” and Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister, Yov Gallant, of misuse of their power by issuing “baseless arrest warrant” against Yov Gallant. .
The order states that ICC has no jurisdiction over the United States or Israel, ”
Trump’s action took place when Netanyahu was visiting Washington. He and Trump interacted at the White House on Tuesday, and Netanyahu held a meeting with MPs on Capital Hill on Thursday.
The order says that the US will put “tangible and important results” on those responsible for the “crimes” of the ICC. Action may not be allowed to block property and property and ICC officers, employees and relatives to enter the United States.
Human rights activists said that court officials would have an impact of approval and a counter for American interests in other struggle areas where the court is investigating.
Staff Attorney Charlie Hagal of the American Civil Liberty Union said, “Human rights victims are converted into international criminal courts around the world, when they do not have to go anywhere else, and justice from President Trump’s executive order It will be difficult to find. ” National Security Project. “This order also increases serious first amendment concerns as it puts people in the United States at risk of harsh punishment to identify the court and to investigate the atrocities by anyone.”
Hogg said that the order is “an attack on both accountability and free speech.”
“You may disagree with the court and the way it operates, but the way it operates, but it is beyond Pale,” Sara Yezar said Washington’s Washington Director Sarai Yezar said before the announcement.
Like Israel, the US is not one of the 124 members of the court and long -standing that a “global court” of undisclosed judges may prose in an arbitrary prosecution. A 2002 law authorizes Pentagon to free any American or American ally organized by the court. In 2020, Trump approved his decision to open an inquiry into the war crimes committed by all parties, including the US, in Afghanistan, Fato Bansoda, the predecessor, Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan.
However, those sanctions were lifted under the President who Biden, and the US began collaborating with the tribunal – especially in 2023, after Khan, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused of war crimes in Ukraine.
Running that turnaround Sen Lindsay Graham, Rs. C.
Now, Graham says that he feels betrayal by Khan – and vow to crush the court as well as to implement the economy of any country who tries to implement the arrest warrant against Netanyahu.
“This is an evil court. This is a Kangaroo court, “Graham said in an interview in December. “There are places where the court makes the right understanding. Russia is a failed state. People fall out of the windows. But I never thought in my wild dreams that they would go after Israel, one of the most independent legal systems on the planet. ,
He said, “The legal principle they are using against Israel has no limit and we are ahead.”
Biden called the warrant a hatred, and Trump’s National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, has accused the court of an opponent bias.
Any restriction can cripple the court by creating a difficulty for its investigators to travel and to compromise the US-developed technology to protect the evidence. The court faced a major cyber attack last year, unable to reach the files for weeks.
Some European countries are pushing back. In a statement later last year, the Netherlands asked other ICC members to cooperate to reduce the risks of these potential sanctions, so that the court can continue to complete its work and continue to fulfill its mandate . “