(Photo credit: Mouneb Taim/Anadolu via Getty Images))NOV 12, 2026
Evidence presented by the coalition shows that Israel could not have carried out its genocide in Gaza without Trump and Rubio’s direct support
The Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide (TAAG) submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 11 November, seeking arrest warrants for US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
TAAG presented the filing at a press conference in The Hague on behalf of a coalition of US taxpayers, human rights lawyers, and activists.
The filing 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.
“We urge the Office of the Prosecutor to act quickly on this evidence,” TAAG co-founder Seth Donnelly said, adding that the submission meets the legal bar for warrants against both men, after US federal courts had proven unable “again and again and again” to confront the crime.
The 28-page document holds Trump directly responsible for releasing about 1,800 previously withheld 2,000-pound bombs to the Israeli military.
The filing also points to his protection of individuals and entities that Washington itself had implicated in violence and dispossession in the occupied West Bank by lifting sanctions on them.
Rubio is implicated in arms deals that the State Department and the Defense Security Cooperation Agency approved after February 2025, covering everything from Hellfire missiles and guidance kits to 2,000-pound bomb casings and penetrator warheads.
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. The death toll is expected to rise significantly once all remains are recovered.
Washington has pursued a years-long campaign to cripple the ICC and shield Israel, along with US officials, from accountability for the genocide in Gaza and other war crimes.
The US imposed sweeping sanctions on the ICC last month, cutting the court itself off from US financial services, technology firms, and the US dollar, with Rubio vowing to cripple “its ability to operate against us.”
These measures threaten the banking, insurance, and technology services the ICC relies on to function.
Washington has sanctioned half of the court’s 18 judges and much of its leadership, including its president and chief prosecutor.
It also urged NATO allies to help “systematically dismantle” the institution and pushed African states to abandon the Rome Statute.
The campaign to destroy the ICC began in November 2024, when the ICC issued arrest warrants for war criminal and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former war minister Yoav Gallant over their leading role in the genocide in Gaza.
