George Clooney has contacted the White House to defend his wife Amal Clooney who has been helping bring a war crimes case against Israeli leaders. According to a new report from The Washington Post, the actor reached out after President Joe Biden criticized the International Criminal Court's effort to issue arrest warrants against top Israeli and Hamas leaders with the help of Amal Clooney.
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00:00 George Clooney has contacted the White House to defend his wife Amal Clooney,
00:04 who's been helping bring a war crimes case against Israeli leaders.
00:08 According to a new report from the Washington Post, the actor reached out after President Joe
00:13 Biden criticized the International Criminal Court's effort to issue arrest warrants against
00:18 top Israeli and Hamas leaders with the help of Amal Clooney. The human rights lawyer was part
00:23 of a group of UK-based legal advisors who helped ICC prosecutor Karim Khan request arrest warrants
00:30 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Minister of Defense, and three Hamas leaders
00:35 over suspected war crimes committed as part of Israel's war on Gaza following the October 7th
00:40 Hamas terrorist attacks. The report claimed George Clooney called after Biden denounced
00:45 the ICC arrest warrants against the Israeli leaders as outrageous. According to the Post,
00:50 Clooney was apparently concerned his wife would be impacted by sanctions threatened against the ICC
00:56 for advising these leaders be held accountable for alleged war crimes.
01:00 Amal Clooney wrote on the site for the Clooney Foundation for Justice saying,
01:04 "As a human rights lawyer, I will never accept that one child's life has less value than another's.
01:09 I do not accept that any conflict should be beyond the reach of the law, nor that any
01:13 perpetrator should be above the law." His call to the White House comes as Clooney is scheduled to
01:18 appear next week at a Biden fundraiser in Los Angeles. For more on this story, head to THR.com.
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