ICC ‘enchants the new US sanctions against his judges and prosecutors

The International Criminal Court (ICC) said it “apologizes” new US sanctions against its judges and prosecutors.

On Wednesday, the US State Department announced new sanctions against two judges and two prosecutors in the ICC to participate in efforts to pursue US citizens and Israeli citizens.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has accused the ICC of being a “threat to national security” and a “instrument of legality” against the US and Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes the US movement. The ICC has issued orders for arrest against Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Joab Gallant for suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity over Israel’s war in Gaza.

France has joined the ICC to deny this move in the United States, expressing “horror” as one of his judges Nikolai Gilu was among the sanctioned.

The three other ICC employees named by the US were Judge Kimberly Prost from Canada, as well as the deputy prosecutors Nazat Sham Khan of Fiji and Mama Mandia Niang of Senegal.

Rubio condemned “politicization, abuse of court’s power and illegitimate judicial excess part” in a statement that reported sanctions.

ICC is a global court with the power to carry a prosecutor’s office for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The court called the latest sanctions a “rough attack” for its independence and impartiality.

“They are also an attack on … the international order based on the rules, and most of all millions of innocent victims around the world,” she added.

Foreign Ministry of France has criticized sanctions as “contrary to the principle of an independent judicial system,” AFP reported.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu welcomes the decision by calling it a “firm measure against the” mendamous blurring “campaign against Israel.

Gilu was sanctioned to resolve orders for arrest against Netanyahu and Gallant, according to the US State Department.

It says that Prost, the Canadian judge, was sanctioned for investigation by US staff in Afghanistan, adding that Khan and Niang were responsible for “illegitimate action against Israel”.

Penalties mean that the four employees cannot access or take advantage of the property or interests they possess in the United States.

This last round of sanctions comes after the United States has imposed similar restrictions on Attorney General of ICC, Karim Khan KCTogether with four other judges earlier this year.

Earlier, the head of the UN Human Rights asked the US to withdraw its sanctions against the four judges, stating that the decision was directly counteracting “respect for the rule of law”.

In July, the United States also sanctioned the special rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council, Francesca Albanese, who was a prominent critic of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.

Rubio pointed to Albanese’s support for the ICC and her involvement in court decisions to pursue American or Israeli citizens as a justification for this move.

In response, Albanian support for ICC on social media, stating that it came from the justified side of the court Italy, where lawyers and judges “defended the justice of great expenses and often with their own lives.”

“I intend to honor this tradition,” she added in the publication.