The U.S. sanctions targeted four judges, two of whom authorized arrest warrants for top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled new sanctions to target the International Criminal Court for its attempts to investigate the United States and Israel for alleged war crimes.

The State Department said Thursday that it would freeze any assets that the ICC judges, who come from Benin, Peru, Slovenia and Uganda, have in U.S. jurisdictions.