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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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00:00George Clooney has contacted the White House to defend his wife, Amal Clooney,
00:04who's been helping bring a war crimes case against Israeli leaders.
00:08According to a new report from the Washington Post, the actor reached out after President
00:13Joe Biden criticized the International Criminal Court's effort to issue arrest warrants against
00:18top Israeli and Hamas leaders with the help of Amal Clooney. The human rights lawyer was part
00:23of a group of UK-based legal advisors who helped ICC prosecutor Karim Khan request arrest warrants
00:29for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Minister of Defense, and three Hamas leaders
00:35over suspected war crimes committed as part of Israel's war on Gaza following the October 7th
00:41Hamas terrorist attacks. The report claimed George Clooney called after Biden denounced the ICC arrest
00:46warrants against the Israeli leaders as outrageous. According to the Post, Clooney was apparently
00:51concerned his wife would be impacted by sanctions threatened against the ICC for advising these
00:57leaders be held accountable for alleged war crimes. Amal Clooney wrote on the site for the Clooney
01:02Foundation for Justice, saying,
01:04As a human rights lawyer, I will never accept that one child's life has less value than another's.
01:09I do not accept that any conflict should be beyond the reach of the law,
01:13nor that any perpetrator should be above the law.
01:15His call to the White House comes as Clooney is scheduled to appear next week at a Biden fundraiser
01:20in Los Angeles. For more on this story, head to THR.com. And for the latest entertainment news and updates,
01:26keep watching the Hollywood Reporter News.
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