Amal Clooney could be barred from entering the United States — where she lives with her Oscar-winning husband George and their daughters — for her role in influencing the International Criminal Court to charge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant with war crimes in Gaza.
The UK Foreign Office warned several senior barristers that they could be slapped with sanctions by the Trump administration for their involvement in the controversial case that saw the ICC issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant in November, the Financial Times reported.
Trump, 78, ordered ICC officials, employees and their immediate family members to be hit with financial penalties and visa restrictions after he sanctioned the ICC over the “baseless” warrants in an executive order signed in February.
ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan — who first pushed the court to issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant in May 2024 — is the only person from the high-profile case named in Trump’s executive action.
If Clooney, an accomplished Lebanese British human rights lawyer who is a British citizen, is targeted next, the 47-year-old faces banishment from entering the country where she lives with George, whom she married in September 2014, and their 7-year-old twin daughters.
The White House and reps for Clooney did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Clooney played an instrumental role in the decision to prosecute Netanyahu and Gallant after she was asked by the ICC last year to join a panel of international legal experts to evaluate evidence of suspected war crimes in Israel and Gaza.
The panel determined unanimously that the ICC had jurisdiction over crimes committed in the course of Israel’s war against Hamas and recommended that both Hamas and Israeli leaders be held accountable.
The ICC levied arrest warrants in November against Netanyahu and Gallant, alleging there were “reasonable grounds” to conclude the two men “intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable for their survival.”
The court also sought an arrest warrant against Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, who helped plan and lead the Oct. 7 massacre that left 1,200 dead in Israel, with 251 others kidnapped.
Israel, however, confirmed it had killed the terrorist in a targeted strike in July.
Netanyahu and Gallant are subject to arrest in any of the 124 nations that have ratified the 1998 Rome Statute, including Austria, the UK and France.
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