Clooney, a human rights barrister, was among a group of legal experts approached by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan to advise on alleging war crimes against Israeli and Hamas leaders.
Lawyer representing Armenia, Amal Clooney, waits on January 28, 2015 for the start of the appeal hearing in Perincek case before the European Court of Human Rights in the eastern French city of the Strasbourg. Turkish politician Dogu Perincek from the Left-wing Turkish Workers’ Party, was found guilty by a Swiss court in 2008 of denying, during a visit to Switzerland, that the 1915 genocide, in which up to 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered, ever took place.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel’s wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery on May 13, 2024. Israel marks Memorial Day to commemorate fallen soldiers and victims of attacks recorded since 1860 by the defence ministry, just before the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of its creation according to the Jewish calendar.
More than 35,500 Palestinians have been killed and more than 79,000 wounded in Gaza since Oct. 7, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Monday, CNN reported, adding that it could not independently verify the figures. The warrant applications will now be considered by a panel of ICC judges, the Daily Beast reported. But in alleging war crimes against Netanyahu, the court is targeting the leader of one of the United States’ close allies for the first time, according to CNN.
Netanyahu called Khan’s decision to seek arrest warrants for him and Gallant “a political outrage,” CNN reported. Netanyahu previously said that any ICC arrest warrants against him and other senior Israeli government and military officials “would be an outrage of historic proportions.” He also said that Israel “has an independent legal system that rigorously investigates all violations of the law.
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