A UN human rights expert will deliver a report on Tuesday accusing ‘Israel’ of carrying out three acts of genocide in Gaza, pushing for placing ‘Israel’ under an arms embargo, according to the Guardian.
The UN special rapporteur on human rights in Palestine, Francesca Albanese, said in her report there were “reasonable grounds” to believe that ‘Israel’ was carrying out three of the five acts defined as genocide: killing Palestinians, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, and “deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction” of the population in whole or in part.
Albanese adduced in the report that ‘Israel’ had sought to conceal its “eliminationist conduct of hostilities” by clothing it in the language of international humanitarian law, and designating Gazans as a whole as “terrorist” or “terrorist-supporting”.
The use of such language, according to the report, transformed “everything and everyone into either a target or collateral damage, hence killable or destroyable”.
“The overwhelming nature and scale of Israel’s assault on Gaza and the destructive conditions of life it has inflicted reveal an intent to physically destroy Palestinians as a group,” Albanese’s report said.
The report recommends that UN member states: “Immediately implement an arms embargo on ‘Israel’, as it appears to have failed to comply with the binding measures ordered by the ICJ.”
In February, ‘Israel’ imposed a visa ban on Albanese after she argued that the 7 October attack was not an act of antisemitism.
“The victims of 7/10 were not killed because of their Judaism, but in response to Israel’s oppression,” Albanese wrote on X on 10 February.
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