According to IRNA's reporter, the bill to sanction ICC officials in case of investigation or trial of Israeli officials was approved by 247 to 155 votes on Tuesday, with 42 Democrats joining Republicans in backing the measure to fully support the Tel Aviv regime.
If approved by the Senate and turned into law, the bill would allow the US President to impose sanctions on the people involved in ICC prosecutions of Americans or US allies that are not ICC members, including the Zionist regime.
The measure is not expected to become law, but reflects continuing support for Israel in Congress amid international criticism over the regime’s genocidal war campaign in the Gaza Strip.
The move at the US House came over a week after Chief ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan requested arrest warrants for Israel's prime minister and war minister, angering both the Israeli and US regimes.
Khan said last month that he had reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant "bear criminal responsibility" for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Netanyahu then described the ICC prosecutor's decision as "absurd" while the Biden administration called the request for an arrest warrant “cruel". On May 19, Republican representatives in the US Congress also announced that they were preparing a plan to sanction the authorities of ICC if they dare issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials.
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