US taxpayer group calls on ICC to investigate Trump, Rubio for 'aiding' Gaza genocide

A group of US taxpayers and international human rights lawyers have officially called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate President Donald Trump and his top diplomat Marco Rubio for "aiding and abetting genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed by Israel in Gaza". They announced it at a press conference at the court's home in The Hague, in the Netherlands, on Wednesday. The submission to the court was organised by the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide (Taag), and includes sworn affidavits from doctors who worked in Gaza, firsthand eyewitness accounts, whistleblower testimony, video evidence, and extensive documentation of what they say is US military, financial, diplomatic, and political support for Israel, the group said. Among those involved are Dr Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon who undertook two missions in Gaza, and David McIntosh, a former contractor with the scandal-plagued and now-defunct Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, both of whom have previously shared their detailed experiences with Middle East Eye. It took nearly a year to compile the necessary proof that without the US, Israel could not have carried out what the United Nations and Holocaust scholars have described as a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, Taag said in a press release accompanying the announcement. Read more: US taxpayer group calls on ICC to investigate Trump, Rubio for 'aiding' Gaza genocide Seth Donnelly, co-founder of the Taxpayers Alliance Against Genocide, leads a press conference from The Hague, in the Netherlands, to announce an official submission to the ICC to investigate US President Donald Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on 11 November 2026 (Screengrab)