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The Trump administration imposed sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court as an institution, hours after South African jurist Navi Pillay—a vocal critic of Israel's conduct in Gaza—won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The move follows earlier US sanctions on more than half the court's judges and its top prosecutors over the 2024 ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders including Netanyahu, who praised the sanctions and called Pillay a 'bigot'. The decision triggered broad international backlash: ICC President Tomoko Akane urged member states to defend the court, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the move as a 'serious blow' to international justice, and the EU, Canada, Japan and other allies pledged to protect the tribunal from US pressure.