On the same day that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague said that he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli leaders alongside Hamas terrorists, Amal Clooney, a lawyer and the wife of actor George Clooney, announced that her research influenced that decision.
“More than four months ago, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court asked me to assist him with evaluating evidence of suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel and Gaza,” she wrote on the website of the Clooney Foundation for Justice.
She and the panel concluded unanimously that the ICC has jurisdiction over Israel and Gaza, and that “there are reasonable grounds” to accuse Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of war crimes and crimes against humanity, “including starvation as a method of warfare, murder, persecution and extermination.”
Washington has said that the court does not have jurisdiction, and members of Congress have denounced the court’s decision.
