WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s lawyer has admitted all data was erased from the server the Democratic front-runner turned over to federal investigators, as polls show her losing support amid the growing email controversy — and GOP front-runner Donald Trump catching up to her.

In a letter last week to Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) made public by the committee yesterday, attorney David Kendall said Clinton’s server, turned over to federal authorities as part of a security probe, “no longer contains data.”

The release of the letter came a day after Clinton dismissed questions from reporters at a Las Vegas press conference about whether the server had been wiped clean.

Clinton replied sarcastically: “What, like with a cloth or something?

“I don’t know how it works at all,” Clinton said, suggesting that only the media, and not voters, were interested.

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Thousands of U.K. residents have signed a petition demanding the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his war crimes against Gaza during last summer’s brutal offensive.

Given the large scale of support and attention, the U.K. government may be forced to publicly respond in the near future.

The petition, filed on the U.K. parliament petition website, was apparently inspired by an upcoming visit to London for meetings with the government.

“Under international law he should be arrested for war crimes upon arrival in the UK for the massacre of over 2000 civilians in 2014,” wrote the petition’s author, Damian Moran.

Much like petitions filed on the White House website, the government is required to respond once a certain number of people have signed. For parliament petitions, the government must respond when the petition reaches 10,000 signatures. As of Tuesday afternoon, the petition had achieved over 33,000 signatures and a note has been added to the petition’s page: “Waiting for 2 days for a government response.” If the petition garners 100,000 signatures, it will be “considered for debate in parliament.”

Last summer, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge, a bloody war against Gaza that killed about 2,300 Palestinians, the vast majority of whom were civilians, including over 500 children. The attack also devastated Gaza’s infrastructure, and left about 500,000 people displaced or homeless. These war crimes and others, like Israel’s recent attack on the Freedom Flotilla, which sought to bring medical aid and solar panels to the Port of Gaza, have given rise to increased calls for Israel to be tried before the International Criminal Court.

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