Amal Clooney was criticised for staying 'silent' on the Israel-Gaza war. Then she revealed her secret work

Amal Clooney is arguably one of the most famous faces of human rights law and for months she has faced scrutiny for her silence on the Israel- Gaza war.

Despite a busy caseload, Clooney agreed to sign on when she was asked by the ICC prosecutor to assist with "evaluating evidence of suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel and Gaza"."As a human rights lawyer, I will never accept that one child's life has less value than another's," Clooney said in a statement on Monday.

After four months of detailed work, she and a panel of experts believe they have delivered a "milestone in the history of international criminal law".While Amal Alamuddin burst into the public consciousness in 2014 when she became engaged to Hollywood actor George Clooney, within legal circles, she was already a much admired human rights barrister.Born in Beirut in 1978, she and her family fled the civil war for England while she was still a baby.

Her marriage to Clooney catapulted her to international stardom, and she suddenly appeared on as many red carpets as she did in courtrooms. The simmering online campaign boiled over into organised action shortly after the Met Gala on May 6, when an influencer dressed in an elaborate costume befitting 18th-century French queen Marie Antoinette declared, "Let them eat cake," in a TikTok video.

Clooney had drawn scrutiny for a number of reasons, partly because she is of Arab descent and also due to her work in international law and her public advocacy on other human rights issues around the world. Since its inception, the court's judges have issued 46 arrest warrants and, with the cooperation of nation-states, 21 people have been detained in the organisation's detention centre.

But its decisions can have very real impacts on individuals responsible for decision-making and the nation-states at the centre of a conflict.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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