14/2/2025–|Last update: 02/14/202505:41 am (Mecca time)
On Thursday, the United States imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan, a week after President Donald Trump signed a presidential decree in this regard.
The US Treasury declared in a statement that he “imposed sanctions in Khan in accordance with the provisions of the executive decree issued by Trump on February 6, which requires international criminal penalty for having issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Joav Gallant for war crimes in a Gaza sector.
Khan, a British nationality, had started the procedures that prompted the International Criminal Court to issue arrest mandates against Netanyahu and Galant at the end of 2024.
International judges of the criminal court have concluded that there were “reasonable reasons” for suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the war launched by Israel against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
She explained that war crimes attributed to Netanyahu and Galant understand the use of famine as a weapon of war, as well as crimes against humanity, which are murder, persecution and other inhuman acts.
With American support, Israel is committed, between October 7, 2023 and January 19, 2025, a collective genocide in Gaza, which left around 160,000 martyrs and injured Palestinians, most of them children and women, And more than 14,000 missing.