Biden emphasizes that the USA doesn’t acknowledge the ICC’s jurisdiction

The president reiterated that he won’t equate Israel and Hamas in the case of the request for arrest warrants for each Israeli and Hamas leaders.

Earlier, Biden condemned the petition by ICC chief issue Karim Khan that an arrest warrant be issued for Israel’s prime minister and protection minister. The prosecutor believes it’s affordable to consider that they and three Hamas leaders are behind struggle crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity within the Gaza Strip and in Israel.

Neither the USA nor Israel are among the many ICC’s 124 members, nor are the good powers China and Russia. They don’t acknowledge the Court docket’s jurisdiction over struggle crimes, genocide and different crimes.

Nevertheless, the ICC added Palestine as a member in 2015, and the court docket’s chief justice has dominated that the ICC has jurisdiction over the occasions in Israel and the Gaza Strip following 7 October.

In Europe, over 40 nations are members of the ICC, together with Norway, which has emphasised that it helps the ICC’s work to make sure accountability for severe worldwide crimes dedicated in all elements of the world.

In 2020, then US President Donald Trump imposed sanctions in opposition to the ICC prosecutor throughout an ongoing investigation of US troopers for potential struggle crimes in Afghanistan in 2021. Biden lifted the sanctions the next 12 months, and the US has, amongst different issues, supported the ICC’s resolution to problem an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Ukraine struggle.