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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Guardian Staff

Amal Clooney advised ICC prosecutor who seeks arrest of Israel and Hamas leaders

Amal Clooney.
‘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,’ Clooney said. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney served as a special adviser in the international criminal court prosecutor’s investigation that led him to seek arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, it has emerged.

The court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, thanked Clooney in his statement announcing the move, describing her as part of “a panel of experts in international law” whom he had turned to for advice and to review the evidence in the case. Many of the named experts are British.

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