U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court could jeopardize trials and investigations at the world’s only permanent global tribunal for war crimes and genocide.

It is the first time the US has imposed sanctions against an international governmental organization. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order on Thursday imposing sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) due to the arrest warrants issued by that institution against the Prime Minister of Israel,