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28-03-2024, 02:57 PM
UN expert says she faces threats after Israel-Gaza genocide report. Francesca Albanese had stated there were clear indications Israel has violated three acts in the UN Genocide Convention. UNs expert who published a report saying there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel has committed genocide in its war on Gaza says she has received threats throughout her mandate.
Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, presented a report entitled “Anatomy of a Genocide” to the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, which Israel said it “utterly rejects”.
Albanese said one of her key findings was that Israel’s executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally “subverted their protection functions in an attempt to legitimise genocidal violence against Palestinian people”.
“The only reasonable inference that can be drawn from the unveiling of this policy is an Israeli state policy of genocidal violence toward the Palestinian people in Gaza,” she said, adding that it was a “long-standing settler colonial process of erasure”.
She called“ongoing Nakba” to stop, referring to ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. Israel’s diplomatic mission in Geneva said use of word genocide was “outrageous” said war was against Hamas and not Palestinian civilians. Albanese, an Italian lawyer & academic, is one of dozens of independent human rights experts mandated by UN to report on specific themes & crises.
Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, presented a report entitled “Anatomy of a Genocide” to the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, which Israel said it “utterly rejects”.
Albanese said one of her key findings was that Israel’s executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally “subverted their protection functions in an attempt to legitimise genocidal violence against Palestinian people”.
“The only reasonable inference that can be drawn from the unveiling of this policy is an Israeli state policy of genocidal violence toward the Palestinian people in Gaza,” she said, adding that it was a “long-standing settler colonial process of erasure”.
She called“ongoing Nakba” to stop, referring to ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. Israel’s diplomatic mission in Geneva said use of word genocide was “outrageous” said war was against Hamas and not Palestinian civilians. Albanese, an Italian lawyer & academic, is one of dozens of independent human rights experts mandated by UN to report on specific themes & crises.
