Exclusive: UK believes Trump may sanction Amal Clooney over ICC Palestine role

The British government believes the US could sanction prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney over her role advising the ICC chief prosecutor on arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, Middle East Eye can reveal.

In April it emerged that the British Foreign Office had warned senior British lawyers involved in the ICC’s war crimes case against two senior Israeli leaders that they are at risk of US sanctions.

This came after the Trump administration imposed financial and visa sanctions on Karim Khan, the court’s British chief prosecutor, in February.

Last November the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. 

Trump’s executive order, a response to the arrest warrants, warned further measures could follow “on those responsible for those transgressions”.

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