Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, will face sanctions from the US for her work with the International Criminal Court to look into Americans and Israelis, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday.
The Trump administration has launched a campaign to punish those who criticize Israel’s conflict in Gaza, and Ms. Albanese, an Italian legal expert, has been a vocal opponent of Israeli military actions in Gaza.
Sanctions imposed by an executive order signed by President Trump in February may prevent members of the International Criminal Court from entering the United States and from acquiring assets and real estate there.
A 1998 treaty that created the court to look into and bring charges against those suspected of war crimes, genocide, and other crimes does not include the United States as a party.
Four judges on the International Criminal Court were targeted by the Trump administration last month for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his war cabinet. After Karim Khan, the court’s head prosecutor, filed a case against Israel over the war, the United States sanctioned him in February.
Ms. Albanese of the U.N. Human Rights Council stated this week in Aspeechto that Israel was accountable for one of the most heinous genocides in contemporary history.
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