The US State Department said in a statement it imposed sanctions on three Palestinian human rights groups, accusing them of having "directly engaged in efforts by the International Criminal Court to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel's consent." The three groups added to the US sanctions list are: Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. "We oppose the ICC's politicized agenda, overreach, and disregard for the sovereignty of the United States and that of our allies," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in the statement. The court issued an international warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over allegations of war crimes in Gaza last year. The Israeli government has denied the accusations and the US government has rejected the court's authority. The ICC was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, genocide and other atrocities. Neither the US nor Israel are party to the court, which is the basis for the US and Israeli argument that both countries should not be subject to the court's authority. The ICC has clarified that even though Israel is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, which is the first step to ICC membership, the court is acting based on the Palestinian territories' accession to the Rome Statute and the principle of territorial (rather than national) jurisdiction.