The Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions Thursday on two more judges of the International Criminal Court due to their targeting of Israeli government officials over the Gaza war.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the sanctions against Georgian judge Gocha Lordkipanidze and Mongolian judge Erdenebalsuren Damdin in a written statement.

He linked the move to a vote on Monday in which the two upheld arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.

“These individuals have directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute Israeli nationals without Israel’s consent,” he said.

“We will not tolerate ICC abuses of power that violate the sovereignty of the United States and Israel and wrongly subject US and Israeli persons to the ICC’s jurisdiction,” the top diplomat continued. “We will continue to respond with significant and tangible consequences to the ICC’s lawfare and overreach.”

The US sanctions include freezing any US assets of those designated and barring them........

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