Amal Clooney says she was part of legal team that recommended ICC prosecutor seek arrest warrants

Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended that the chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court seek arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three top leaders of the Hamas terror group.
The Lebanese-British human rights lawyer and wife of actor George Clooney writes of her participation in a letter posted on the website of the couple’s Clooney Foundation for Justice. She says she and other experts in international law unanimously agreed to recommend that International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan seek the warrants.
Khan announced his intention to do so earlier today, saying that actions taken by both Israeli leaders and Hamas in the seven-month war in Gaza amounted to war crimes.
“I served on this Panel because I believe in the rule of law and the need to protect civilian lives,” Clooney writes. “The law that protects civilians in war was developed more than 100 years ago and it applies in every country in the world regardless of the reasons for a conflict.”
The panel comprised experts in international humanitarian law and international criminal law, and two of its members are former judges at criminal tribunals in The Hague, where the ICC is based, Clooney writes. She adds that their decision was unanimous.
The panel also publishes an op-ed about its recommendation in the Financial Times.
A panel of three judges at the ICC will decide whether to issue the arrest warrants and allow a case to proceed. The judges typically take two months to make such decisions.