The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan has officially been sanctioned by the Trump administration. He has lost access to his Microsoft email, his bank accounts are frozen, and American staffers at the ICC have been warned that if they travel back to the U.S., they risk arrest.
In November 2024, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The court’s judges concluded there was sufficient reason and evidence to believe that the Israeli government had targeted civilians and blocked humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. Israel has been waging an offensive against Hamas in Gaza since October 2023, following Hamas’s attack on October 7 that killed 1,139 Israelis. Since the war began, over 53,000 people have reportedly died in Gaza.
