The International Criminal Court, or ICC, “continues to disregard national sovereignty and facilitate lawfare through efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, and prosecute American and Israeli nationals,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a post on X. “In response,” he said, “I am sanctioning four additional ICC officials.”The State Department has designated two ICC judges and two deputy prosecutors for having directly engaged in any effort by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute a protected person without consent of that person’s country of nationality. They include Judge Kimberly Prost, Judge Nicolas Yann Guillou, Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan, and Deputy Prosecutor Mame Mandiaye Niang. Prost is being designated for ruling to authorize the ICC’s investigation into U.S. personnel in Afghanistan. The sanctions block all property and interests of the designated officials within U.S. jurisdiction and prohibit U.S. persons from engaging in transactions with them.