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Trump to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court
US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order today to sanction the International Criminal Court for targeting the United States and its allies, such as Israel, a White House official has said.
The order will place financial and visa sanctions on individuals and their family members who assist in ICC investigations of US citizens or US allies, said the official.
Netanyahu gifted Trump a golden pager during their meeting in Washington
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted US President Donald Trump a golden pager, a reference to a deadly Israeli operation against Hezbollah that killed 37 people and injured thousands.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted US President Donald Trump a golden pager during their meeting in Washington on Tuesday, an Israeli political source told CNN.
The gift was an allusion to a deadly September operation carried out by Israel in Lebanon, which targeted pagers used by members of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
On September 17, thousands of explosions struck Hezbollah members, targeting their pagers and then walkie-talkies a day later. The blasts killed at least 37 people, including some children, and injured nearly 3,000, many of them civilian bystanders, according to Lebanese health authorities.
In return, on Tuesday, Trump gave Netanyahu a signed photograph of the two of them. He signed the photograph, “To Bibi, A great leader!,” according to a photo on Instagram posted by his son, Yair Netanyahu.
Israeli soldier jailed for seven months for abusing Palestinian detainees
An Israeli military court has sentenced a soldier to seven months in prison after he admitted to “severely abusing” Palestinians at a detention facility near the border with Gaza, the army said.
“The defendant was convicted for several incidents in which he punched the detainees with his fists and used his weapon while they were handcuffed and blindfolded,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
“These acts were committed in the presence of other soldiers, some of whom called on him to stop, and were even documented on the defendant’s mobile phone,” it added, referring to the incidents which the military said took place at the Sde Teiman facility.
The military court determined that “additional masked soldiers participated in the abuse”, but said their identities remain unknown.
In October, a UN commission found thousands of detainees were subjected to “widespread and systematic abuse” in Israeli military camps and detention facilities that amounted to “war crime and crime against humanity of torture”.
In August 2024, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said more than a dozen prison facilities were being used as “de facto torture camps”.
The Israeli military has said it “categorically rejects allegations of systematic abuse” in its detention facilities.
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