US Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a Republican effort to advance legislation sanctioning the International Criminal Court over the arrest warrants it issued for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant over Israel’s military campaign in Gaza against Hamas.

Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman broke ranks with his party Tuesday, becoming the lone Democrat to support Republican-led efforts to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the tribunal’s controversial move to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Legislation that would have imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court in protest of its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister was blocked in the U.