The US House of Representatives has passed a bill calling for sanctions against officials at the International Criminal Court, which previously issued arrest warrants against Israeli officials.

The House approved the bill by a vote of 243 to 140 on Thursday.

The bill stipulates that arrest warrants targeting Israeli officials must be condemned in the strongest terms.

He called for sanctions on those who support the ICC in “investigating, arresting, detaining, or prosecuting a person from the United States or its allies.”

In June 2024, the House of Representatives passed a bill calling for sanctions on the ICC by a vote of 247 to 155, but it was not sent to the Senate for approval due to the Democratic majority.

For a bill to become law, it must be approved by the Senate and signed by the President of the United States.

In the same context, Democratic Representative James McGovern criticized the House's focus on the International Criminal Court while uncontrollable fires continue in Los Angeles, California.

"We are already dealing with a natural disaster, with hundreds of thousands of people trying to flee a climate-change-induced fire that is destroying entire neighborhoods," he said.

McGovern added that the Republicans' vote on the ICC bill in such a situation "shows how their priorities have been turned upside down."

He pointed out that 40 million people in the United States suffer from hunger, and "despite all these tests, the Republican Party, which is out of touch with reality, wants to spend our time imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court."

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been waging a genocidal war on Gaza, resulting in more than 155,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.

Israel continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on November 21 against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Security Minister Yoav Galant for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the people of Gaza.