Amal Clooney, the wife of actor George Clooney, was one of the experts who advised the International Criminal Court (ICC) on seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on war crimes charges.
ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan assessed evidence of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity against Clooney, 46, in Israel and the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces have been active since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. I asked him to help me do this.
“I have agreed to take on this task and have joined a panel of international legal experts,” Clooney, an attorney, said in a lengthy statement posted on the Clooney Foundation for Justice website.
The ICC has determined that it has jurisdiction over crimes committed by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, political leader Ismail Haniyeh, military commander Mohamed Deif, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. and Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
ICC seeks arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and Hamas leaders for ‘war crimes’
Lawyer Amal Clooney listens during a panel discussion on media freedom at United Nations Headquarters on September 25, 2019. Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended that the world’s top war crimes tribunal seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the militant Hamas leader, Clooney announced on Monday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
“There are reasonable grounds to believe that Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohamed Deif, and Ismail Haniyeh have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, including hostage-taking, murder, and crimes of sexual violence,” Clooney said. “We unanimously conclude that there is,” he wrote of the committee’s determination. .
She cited “war, murder, persecution and starvation as a means of extermination” as Israel’s war crimes.
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Head of the Hamas terrorist organization Yahya Sinwar (C) attends a meeting in Gaza City on April 30, 2022. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)
“As a human rights lawyer, I will never accept that one child’s life is worth less than another child’s life. Any conflict should be above the law and perpetrators should be above the law. I don’t even accept that I should,” she wrote. .
“So I support the historic step taken by the International Criminal Court prosecutor to bring justice to victims of Israeli and Palestinian atrocities,” Clooney added.
Clooney is married to actor George Clooney, who is known to be a supporter of President Biden. The Biden campaign is hosting a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles next month, which will include George Clooney, actress Julia Roberts and former President Barack Obama.
George Clooney will appear in social media posts and digital ads supporting President Biden.
Amal Clooney joined the panel alongside legal experts in international humanitarian law and criminal law. Two members are former judges of the Hauge Criminal Court.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken out against the ICC’s announcement that it will seek an arrest warrant for him on war crimes charges in Gaza. (Government Press Office)
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Netanyahu said the ICC decision was the latest example of “what the new anti-Semitism looks like.”
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“This is for the Israel Defense Forces soldiers who are fighting the rebels in an act of extraordinary heroism. Hamas’s despicable murderers They attacked us with great brutality on October 7,” Netanyahu said in an English-language statement.
“What a fraud of justice! What a disgrace!” he said.
