Update: Amal Alamuddin released a statement on Monday afternoon saying that she had turned down the UN’s offer to join the Gaza inquiry panel. An updated version of this story can be found here.

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British Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin, who is engaged to George Clooney, has been chosen for the UN’s three-member commission of inquiry looking into possible violations of the rules of war in Gaza.

Alamuddin is a London-based international law specialist and former legal adviser to the prosecutor of the special tribunal for Lebanon.

The UN’s top human rights body says she will serve alongside Doudou Diene of Senegal, a lawyer who has filled UN posts on racism and human rights in Ivory Coast, and Canada’s William Schabas, an international law professor at Middlesex University in London, who will chair the commission.

The appointments were announced Monday by Gabon ambassador Baudelaire Ndong Ella, who is president of the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council.