Four International Criminal Court judges from Uganda, Peru, Benin, and Slovenia face U.S. sanctions for their involvement in cases targeting Israel.

United States President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court. This move is an unprecedented retaliation over the war tribunal’s issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a past decision to open a case into alleged war crimes by U.

The Trump administration announced sanctions on four International Criminal Court judges on Thursday over what Secretary of State Marco Rubio called "illegitimate actions" that he said targeted the U.