WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) over investigations of Israel, a close US ally.

Neither the US nor Israel is a member of or recognizes the court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes over his military response in Gaza after the Hamas attack against Israel in October 2023.

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