The House voted to impose sanctions against the International Criminal Court for its move to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials for war crimes in the nation"s war against Hamas, writes NBC NEWS.

The vote was 247-155, with nearly every Republican and a few dozen Democrats voting for it. The sanctions bill is unlikely to get a vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate, however. Though President Joe Biden called the ICC’s actions “outrageous”, his administration said in a statement it “strongly opposes” the bill to sanction the court.

Biden’s administration remains “deeply concerned about the ICC Prosecutor’s heedless rush to apply for arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials”, the administration said, but it also opposes sanctioning “the ICC, its personnel, its judges, or those who assist its work. There are more effective ways to defend Israel, preserve U.S. positions on the ICC, and promote international justice and accountability, and the Administration stands ready to work with the Congress on those options”.

ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan said in a statement last month that the court would issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other Israeli and Hamas leaders, charging leaders on both sides of the conflict with crimes against humanity and war crimes. A panel of three judges will take up the issue and ultimately decide whether to issue the warrants.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called the ICC’s action “outrageous” and “unconscionable” in a press conference Tuesday morning before the vote: “The ICC has to be punished for this action. We cannot allow this to stand. If the ICC was allowed to do this and go after the leaders of countries whose actions they disagree with why would they not come after America?”