According to a report in the Foreign Policy magazine, the US president is considering revoking an order from the Trump administration, which has imposed sanctions against the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague
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The Biden administration plans to repeal the Trump-era order, which imposed sanctions on the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague Pato Bensuda and the head of a tribunal in the court, Pakiso Mukhuchoku, the American Foreign Policy Journal reported today (Wednesday).
Sources involved in the matter said that the move could happen as early as this week or next week.
The order, signed by former President Trump, authorizes the U.S. State Department and Treasury to impose sanctions on senior members of The Hague tribunal for "opening unfair investigations into U.S. operations in Afghanistan." Trump also approved the extension of visa restrictions against International Court of Justice officials and their families.
As you may recall, Basoda officially announced earlier this month the opening of an investigation into war crimes in Judea and Samaria and Gaza.
It will be clarified that the investigation will also apply to the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
"The investigation will cover crimes within the tribunal's jurisdiction, which have allegedly been committed since June 13, 2014," Bensuda clarified in her statement.
"The way the ministry will set priorities for the investigation will be determined later, given the operational challenges we face due to the corona plague, the limited resources available to us and the heavy workload we are currently faced with. Which the Treaty of Rome imposes on us. "
It should be noted that the mandate of the tribunal to investigate the events refers, as stated, to the period beginning on June 13, 2014, a day after the abduction of the three boys.
That is, on the face of it, the tribunal set the date from which it would begin investigating so that the investigators would not relate to the abduction event itself, but only to the IDF operations that followed.