Chip Roy demands sanctions on ICC officials going after US, Israel

FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans led by Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Brian Mast, R-Fla., are pressuring the Biden medication to endanger sanctions against International Criminal Court (ICC) officials if the assemblage goes aft the U.S. oregon U.S. allies that bash not autumn nether its jurisdiction.

It comes amid reports that the ICC is preparing warrants against apical Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, implicit their handling of humanitarian assistance successful Gaza during the Middle Eastern nation's warfare connected panic radical Hamas.

They're starring a caller measure to unit President Biden's manus called The Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, on with 15 House GOP co-sponsors, including House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Republican Study Committee Chair Kevin Hern, R-Okla.

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Rep. Chip Roy, left, is 1 of the lawmakers starring a measure to authorisation the ICC aft it was reported it could contented apprehension warrants for apical Israeli officials, including Benjamin Netanyahu. (Getty Images)

According to legislative substance obtained by Fox News Digital, it would unit Biden to authorisation an ICC-related entity oregon idiosyncratic "no aboriginal than 60 days aft the enactment of this Act, if the International Criminal Court is engaging successful immoderate effort to investigate, arrest, detain, oregon prosecute immoderate protected person."

"The ICC is an illegitimate tribunal that represents a monolithic menace to U.S. sovereignty. The Trump medication was close to enforce sanctions connected the associates of the ICC if they situation spell aft U.S. citizens, work members, oregon our allies," Roy told Fox News Digital. "Biden's determination to reverse that argumentation was weak, embarrassing, and wrong."

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Roy said of reports that the ICC may people Israel, "If the ICC goes aft our allies, determination volition beryllium consequences."

Israel is not nether the ICC's jurisdiction. The Palestinian territories, however, were admitted successful 2015.

Mast said their measure sent a "clear message" to the ICC, adding, "We whitethorn not admit you, but you definite arsenic hellhole volition admit what happens erstwhile you people America oregon its allies." 

Rep. Brian Mast, who served with the IDF, is co-leading the ICC effort. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Mast is simply a subordinate of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wherever the measure volition person to beforehand earlier a imaginable House-wide vote. A U.S. Army veteran, helium besides antecedently served with the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).

Stefanik, the No. 3 House Republican, accused the ICC of "a run to undermine the lone ideology successful the Middle East, portion turning a unsighted oculus to the galore quality rights atrocities committed by Hamas."

"This treble modular is an maltreatment of powerfulness by the ICC and exposes their irrelevance," she said.

State Department lawman spokesperson Vidant Patel would not corroborate oregon contradict whether the U.S. was alert of the ICC's reported plans during a property briefing aboriginal past week, but helium told reporters, "On this investigation, our presumption is clear. We proceed to judge that the ICC does not person jurisdiction implicit the Palestinian situation."

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IDF forces basal acceptable for a imaginable crushed violative successful Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah, to proceed warring Hamas and disbanding its battalions. (Noam Shaar/TPS)

Israeli officials are acrophobic that the ICC is preparing apprehension warrants implicit Israel's effect to the Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught by the violent radical Hamas, the New York Times reported past Monday.

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Israel has been accused of blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza portion waging a crushed penetration and airstrike run successful bid to get Israeli hostages being held by Hamas backmost to their homes. But there's been mounting disapproval of Israel connected the satellite signifier implicit the severity of its response.

Netanyahu said connected X past week successful effect to the report, "Under my leadership, Israel volition ne'er judge immoderate effort by the ICC to undermine its inherent close of self-defense."