The Netherlands may face US sanctions.. What is Israel’s relationship?

According to the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant, employees of Dutch security institutions and police officers are at risk of falling within the scope of this draft law, as it appears that this measure was initially intended to prevent the International Criminal Court, especially Prosecutor General Karim Khan, from taking further measures. Against the Israelis. However, this also applies to those who collect evidence, arrest, transfer, interrogate, and detain suspects, meaning that government employees and NGO employees who provide information to the prosecutor may both be involved.

The Netherlands was not specifically mentioned, but as a host country for the ICC, it is particularly concerned. As a result, ICC suspects, regardless of where they are arrested, eventually end up on Dutch soil.

In fact, the Netherlands, as the host country, “provides practical support to the two tribunals based in The Hague.” Furthermore, the Netherlands faces the same threat as all ICC member states if the suspects are arrested.

According to Andre Nollekamper, professor of international law at the University of Amsterdam, the question is how broadly the US authorities will interpret this penal code. But he believes that “Dutch officials are definitely threatened.”

As previously reported, according to the approved bill, the United States will be able to impose sanctions on anyone who investigates, arrests, detains, or prosecutes American citizens or officials from an allied country, including Israel, as well as Japan, NATO members, Washington’s partners outside the alliance, and Taiwan. . The legislation also applies to persons who provide financial, material or technical support to the International Criminal Court. (Russia Today)