A U.S. taxpayers’ group urged the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor to investigate alleged U.S. support for Israel’s conduct in Gaza and seek arrest warrants for senior officials, including President Donald Trump.
The Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide (TAAG) said it delivered evidence to the prosecutor in The Hague on Wednesday, Nov. 11, and called for warrants against Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other senior U.S. officials. The group accused them of aiding and abetting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
TAAG said the material concerns U.S. military, financial, diplomatic and political support for Israel. Its announcement described a package that included affidavits from doctors who had worked in Gaza, eyewitness accounts, whistleblower testimony, video and documents.
The group also cited testimony from trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa and David McIntosh, a former manager at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. TAAG presented the material to support its allegations about U.S. officials’ role in the war.
The request was a call for prosecutorial action, not an ICC ruling. Handing evidence to the prosecutor does not establish whether the office will open an investigation or pursue warrants. The allegations are not findings against the people named.
The U.S. Department of Justice says the United States is not a party to the 1998 Rome Statute, which established the court, and has not consented to the ICC’s authority over U.S. persons.
In a separate proceeding, the ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Nov. 21, 2024. The court’s announcement described allegations that included the war crime of using starvation as a method of warfare. Those warrants concerned Israeli officials; TAAG’s request asks the prosecutor to consider alleged U.S. involvement.
