Donald Trump will sign an executive order today sanctioning the International Criminal Court, accusing it of improperly targeting the US and Israel, according to a copy of a fact sheet supporting the order seen by our US partner network NBC.

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.

Last November, the ICC sparked backlash in Washington by issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence minister and several Hamas leaders simultaneously. 

The Trump administration order claims this created a “shameful moral equivalency”.