The Biden administration may undo some of the pro-Israel measures taken by the previous president against the International Criminal Court, according to the Foreign Policy.
The international relations magazine reported that the executive order targeting the outing ICC chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, imposed by President Donald Trump over potential legal prosecution against Israeli and US soldiers.
According to the report, there are "plans as early as this week to revoke a Trump-era executive order levying sanctions on the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a top deputy." Furthermore, the magazine said that "the expected move comes after months of pressure on the Biden administration from human rights groups and European governments after former President Donald Trump left office. In February, more than 80 groups signed an open letter urging the Biden administration to repeal the Trump-era sanctions, calling them a 'betrayal of the US legacy in establishing institutions of international justice.'"
Bensouda has recently announced that she would launch an investigation into alleged Israeli and Palestinian war crimes since the Gaza war of 2014, which was triggered when terrorists kidnapped and killed three Israeli teens.
This, despite the Palestinian Authority not being recognized as a state and Israel not being a signatory to the Rome Statute that set the legal framework for the court.
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