UN Rapporteur: Ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people is the result of Israel’s impunity

The UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, stressed that the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people is a result of Israel’s impunity, calling for imposing sanctions on it and banning the supply of weapons to it until it stops its aggression and withdraws completely from the occupied Palestinian territory.

WAFA News Agency quoted Albanese as saying in a report she submitted to the UN General Assembly under the title “Genocide as Colonial Erasure”: “The genocide in Gaza is a declared tragedy that may expand to include other Palestinians. She noted that moving forward with achieving the goal of “Greater Israel” threatens to erase the original Palestinian population.”

 “Israel’s genocidal conduct, which is obscured by Israel’s false narrative of a war waged in ‘self-defense,’ must be viewed in a broader context as a series of actions targeting Palestinians in furtherance of Israel’s political ambitions to extend sovereignty over all of formerly mandated Palestine,” Albanese added.

The UN rapporteur noted that the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories is terrible and that Palestinians in the West Bank are subject to the same violations, indicating that the ongoing genocide is the result of Israel’s exceptional status and its longstanding impunity.

Albanese called for declaring Israel as an apartheid entity that continues to violate international law, for reactivating the UN Special Committee against Apartheid to address the situation in Palestine, and for warning Israel of the possibility of suspending its membership under Article 6 of the UN Charter.

Albanese pointed out in a press conference held at the United Nations headquarters that it is very disturbing to see UN member states questioning the meaning of international law and working to dehumanize Palestinian victims, pointing out that if international law had been respected at least during the past twelve months, that would have been enough to stop what is happening in Gaza.

Inas Abdulkareem