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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