A group of US taxpayers and international human rights lawyers has formally asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for aiding Israel’s genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
The request was filed on Wednesday at the ICC’s headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands, on the initiative of an organisation called the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide (TAAG).
The organisation said the filing included sworn testimony from doctors who worked in Gaza, eyewitness accounts, statements from whistleblowers, video evidence and detailed records of US military, financial, diplomatic and political support for Israel.
Among the petitioners are Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon who has served twice in Gaza, and David McIntosh, a former contractor for the now-defunct Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
TAAG said it took about a year to gather and verify the evidence. It argues that Israel could not have carried out the alleged genocide against Palestinians in Gaza without US help.
Seth Donnelly, a co-founder of the organisation, told a news conference that the request was filed under Article 15 of the ICC’s Rome Statute. He said it set out extensive evidence that meets the legal standard for arrest warrants against Trump and Rubio.
Donnelly urged the ICC Office of the Prosecutor to act quickly on the evidence. He said repeated efforts to stop US officials’ participation in genocide through American courts had failed.
More than 74,500 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza over the past three years. Israel has kept up attacks almost daily since a ceasefire took effect in October 2025, and deaths from air strikes and sniper fire continue. A study in the medical journal The Lancet said the real death toll could be higher than the official count once bodies under the rubble are recovered.
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