The U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on Wednesday on four officials at the International Criminal Court in The Hague over its support of investigations of U.S. conduct in Afghanistan, as well as arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant.

The move against two ICC judges and two ICC deputy prosecutors follows U.S. President Trump’s executive order from February that imposed sanctions on the court’s chief prosecutor and further sanctions on four ICC judges in June.

“The International Criminal Court continues to disregard national sovereignty and facilitate lawfare through efforts to investigate, arrest, detain and prosecute American and Israeli nationals,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote. “We will continu

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