President Donald Trump intends to approve an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC), NBC News reported Thursday.
The order will accuse the ICC of “improperly targeting the United States and Israel,” the fact sheet says.
The U.S. will issue not only financial sanctions but will “issue visa restrictions against unspecified ICC officials and their family members found to have assisted in ICC investigations of U.S. citizens or allies,” said NBC.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington this week to meet with Trump and other leaders. The ICC issued a warrant for his arrest last November as well as a number of Hamas leaders for the conflict in Gaza.
The Trump order will reportedly call the arrest warrant a “shameful moral equivalency.”
The U.S. and Israel aren’t part of the ICC, though it “participated in the negotiations that led to the creation of the court,” the court history website says.
The court was founded to serve as an “independent permanent tribunal” for the world, the site continues.
Over 80 groups signed onto a letter asking that this order not be approved.