THE HAGUE — The call for justice over Gaza has now come from inside the United States itself. A coalition of American taxpayers, human rights lawyers, and activists has submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeking arrest warrants for US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, accusing both men of aiding and abetting the Zionist entity’s genocide of the Palestinians.
The Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide (TAAG) presented the filing at a press conference in The Hague on 11 November, as reported by The Cradle. The 28-page submission includes sworn testimony from doctors who served in Gaza, eyewitness and whistleblower accounts, video footage, and records documenting Washington’s military, financial, diplomatic, and political backing for Israel’s war machine.
“We urge the Office of the Prosecutor to act quickly on this evidence,” said TAAG co-founder Seth Donnelly, who argued the submission meets the legal threshold for warrants against both men. The recourse to The Hague, he noted, follows the failure of US federal courts to confront the crime “again and again and again.”
The bombs and the signatures
The filing holds Trump directly responsible for releasing approximately 1,800 previously withheld 2,000-pound bombs to the Israeli military — the class of munition that has reduced Gaza’s residential blocks to rubble.
It also points to his decision to lift sanctions on individuals and entities that Washington itself had implicated in violence and dispossession against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank — official protection extended to the very settler violence the US had once nominally condemned.
Rubio, for his part, is implicated in arms deals approved by the State Department and the Defence Security Cooperation Agency after February 2025, covering Hellfire missiles, guidance kits, 2,000-pound bomb casings, and penetrator warheads. The paperwork trail, the coalition argues, places the secretary of state’s signature squarely on the weapons pipeline.
The submission accuses both men of aiding and abetting a genocide that has killed at least 74,500 Palestinians in Gaza over the past three years — a toll expected to rise significantly as remains are recovered from beneath the rubble.
Sanctioning the judges, shielding the accused
The filing lands as Washington escalates its campaign to cripple the very court now being petitioned. Last month, the US imposed sweeping sanctions on the ICC itself, cutting the court off from American financial services, technology firms, and the US dollar — measures that strike at the banking, insurance, and technology infrastructure the court needs simply to function. Rubio vowed to cripple “its ability to operate against us.”
Half of the court’s 18 judges have already been sanctioned, along with much of its leadership, including its president and chief prosecutor. The message is unmistakable: international law may reach Washington’s enemies, but never Washington itself or its clients.
That American citizens must now seek justice for Gaza outside their own country’s courts — from a tribunal their government is actively strangling — exposes the hollowness of Washington’s claim to arbitrate the world’s morals. For the resistance camp, which has long named the US as the chief enabler of the Zionist project, the filing is confirmation from within the empire’s own citizenry: the blood of Gaza’s martyrs runs through Washington’s signatures.
The Office of the Prosecutor now faces a simple test of whether the court’s mandate applies equally to the powerful — or whether the sanctions regime succeeds in burying the evidence along with the victims.
Reference: The Cradle