Trump against International Criminal Court (ICC) officials

Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a video press briefing expressed the regret and impact the US measures may have on the investigations and trials underway in the ICC.
“The independence of the ICC and its ability to operate without interference must be guaranteed so that it can decide matters without any improper influence, inducements, pressures, threats or interference, direct or indirect, from any quarter, or for any reason,” said Colville.
He noted: “Victims of gross human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law and their families have the right to redress and to the truth.”
“The measures announced impact not only the ICC officials but also impact their family members.”
He observed that in terms what the US is saying, the investigation in question is in Afghanistan.
ICC officials involved in an investigation about whether US soldiers committed war crimes in Afghanistan after a preliminary examination in 2017 showed “reasonable ground,” the court said.
US President Donald Trump has escalated hostilities against the International Criminal Court (ICC) by authorising new sanctions against prosecutors and officials of the intergovernmental organisation.
Trump signed an executive order to block ICC officials directly involved in investigating American troops and intelligence officials and those of allied nations.
In addition to the investigation of possible war crimes in Afghanistan involving US troops, the ICC, based in the Hague, Netherlands, has also launched a probe into Israeli war crimes, including crimes against humanity.
The probe into allegations of crimes against humanity committed by American service members and intelligence officers, include torture and rape by US forces in Afghanistan and at CIA interrogation facilities abroad, during the near two-decade campaign against the Taliban.
As for Israel, the Zionist state will be investigated for war crimes committed in Gaza and the West Bank.