# Analysis: Trump is shielding US and Israeli war criminals by sanctioning the ICC

https://mins.news/en/video/94029

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-10-10 01:00 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARtPy6Eo1oI

> Kenneth Roth, a Yale senior fellow and former Human Rights Watch executive director, says new US sanctions on the International Criminal Court do not end the global rules-based order. He argues the Trump administration seeks to “make the world safe for American and Israeli war criminals” and notes Washington tried to exempt its nationals when the court was established in 1998. Thirteen judges and prosecutors have so far been individually sanctioned.

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