Amal Clooney said she supports the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the “historic step” to seek the arrest warrants of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli and Hamas leaders. The ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan has alleged Mr Netanyahu, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh were responsible for war crimes in both Gaza and Israel. Advertisement Barrister Ms Clooney said she joined a panel of international legal experts “more than four months ago” to assist Mr Khan with evaluating evidence of suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel and Gaza.
George Clooney and Amal Clooney married in 2014 (Ian West/PA) The 46-year-old, who married Hollywood actor George Clooney in 2014, said the panel unanimously concluded there are “reasonable grounds to believe” the Hamas leaders named by Mr Khan have committed war crimes “including hostage-taking, murder and crimes of sexual violence”. Advertisement Advertisement The panel also unanimously concluded there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant have committed war crimes including “starvation as a method of warfare, murder, persecution and extermination”. “I served on this panel because I believe in the rule of law and the need to protect civilian lives,” the co-founder of the Clooney Foundation for Justice said on her website.
“As a human rights lawyer, I.