A group of Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so, Zeteo reports.

In a one-page letter signed by 12 senators, Khan was informed that any attempt by the ICC to hold Netanyahu and his colleagues to account for their actions in Gaza would be interpreted “not only as a threat to Israel’s sovereignty but to the sovereignty of the United States.”

“Target Israel and we will target you,” the senators told Khan, adding that they would “sanction your employees and associates, and bar” their families from the United States.

Rather ominously, the letter concludes: “You have been warned.”

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