Amal Clooney could be barred from US under Trump sanctions over ICC case against Netanyahu: report

Amal Clooney could beryllium barred from entering the United States for her relation successful influencing the International Criminal Court to complaint Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and erstwhile Defense Minister Yoav Gallant with war crimes successful Gaza.

The UK Foreign Office warned respective elder barristers — including Clooney, who is joined to Oscar victor George Clooney — that they could beryllium slapped with sanctions by the Trump administration for their engagement successful the arguable lawsuit that saw the ICC contented apprehension warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant successful November, the Financial Times reported.

Trump, 78, ordered ICC officials, employees and their contiguous household members to beryllium deed with fiscal penalties and visa restrictions aft helium sanctioned the ICC implicit the “baseless” warrants successful an enforcement bid signed successful February.

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan — who archetypal pushed the tribunal to contented apprehension warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant successful May 2024 — is the lone idiosyncratic from the high-profile lawsuit named successful Trump’s enforcement action.

If Clooney, an accomplished Lebanese British quality rights lawyer who is simply a British citizen, is targeted next, the 47-year-old faces banishment from entering the state wherever she lives with George, whom she joined successful September 2014, and their 7-year-old duplicate daughters.

The White House and reps for Clooney did not instantly respond to The Post’s petition for comment.

Clooney played an instrumental role successful the determination to prosecute Netanyahu and Gallant aft she was asked by the ICC past twelvemonth to articulation a sheet of planetary ineligible experts to measure grounds of suspected warfare crimes successful Israel and Gaza.

The sheet determined unanimously that the ICC had jurisdiction implicit crimes committed successful the people of Israel’s warfare against Hamas and recommended that some Hamas and Israeli leaders beryllium held accountable.

The ICC levied apprehension warrants successful November against Netanyahu and Gallant, alleging determination were “reasonable grounds” to reason the 2 men “intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian colonisation successful Gaza of objects indispensable for their survival.”

The tribunal besides sought an apprehension warrant against Hamas subject main Mohammed Deif, who helped program and pb the Oct. 7 massacre that near 1,200 dormant successful Israel, with 251 others kidnapped.

Israel, however, confirmed it had killed the terrorist successful a targeted onslaught successful July.

Netanyahu and Gallant are taxable to apprehension successful immoderate of the 124 nations that person ratified the 1998 Rome Statute, including Austria, the UK and France.