Biden poised to undo pro-Israel measure targeting ICC
Israel Hayom
April 1, 2021
ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda
The Biden administration may undo some of the pro-Israel measures
taken by the previous president against the International Criminal
Court, according to the Foreign Policy.
The international relations magazine reported that the executive
order targeting the outing ICC chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, imposed
by President Donald Trump over potential legal prosecution against
Israeli and US soldiers.
According to the report, there are "plans as early as this week to
revoke a Trump-era executive order levying sanctions on the prosecutor
of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a top deputy."
Furthermore, the magazine said that "the expected move comes after
months of pressure on the Biden administration from human rights groups
and European governments after former President Donald Trump left
office. In February, more than 80 groups signed an open letter urging
the Biden administration to repeal the Trump-era sanctions, calling
them a 'betrayal of the US legacy in establishing institutions of
international justice.'"
Bensouda has recently announced that she would launch an
investigation into alleged Israeli and Palestinian war crimes since the
Gaza war of 2014, which was triggered when terrorists kidnapped and
killed three Israeli teens.
This, despite the Palestinian Authority not being recognized as a
state and Israel not being a signatory to the Rome Statute that set the
legal framework for the court.
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