Israel calls report by UN expert a disgrace

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“Anatomy of a genocide”: Israel calls UN expert’s report a disgrace

UN human rights expert Francesca Albanese has written a report on the Gaza war – and drawn the wrath of Israel

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An expert has prepared a report on the Gaza war on behalf of the UN. The title: “Anatomy of a Genocide.” Israel speaks of an “obscene reversal of reality.”

The diplomatic mission of Israel to the The United Nations in Geneva has described a UN human rights expert’s report on the Gaza war as a disgrace to the Human Rights Council. “The report is therefore an obscene reversal of reality, where a so-called expert can make outrageous accusations, the more extreme the better,” the representation wrote on Monday on the platform X (formerly Twitter). According to media reports, the UN human rights expert Francesca Albanese had previously accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip in a still preliminary version and described the founding of the Jewish state as a “settlement-colonialist project”. Albanese does not speak for the UN.

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The UN special rapporteur went on to write that genocide had always been “an inevitable part of the formation of Israel” and claimed that “practices leading to the mass ethnic cleansing of the non-Jewish population of Palestine took place in the years 1947-1949.” The original report “Anatomy of a Genocide,” which was prepared on behalf of the Human Rights Council, the highest human rights body of the United Nations, was not initially available. The Italian lawyer is the UN Human Rights Council’s rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. The Israeli government has long accused it of being biased in favor of the Palestinians.

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Israel’s mission to the UN said Albanese aimed to tell a story in which the Islamist Hamas, its abuse of civilians and civilian infrastructure and its utter brutality simply disappears. The report made it clear that the Special Rapporteur’s conclusion was that Israel was committing genocide. She then tried to “support her distorted and politically motivated views with weak arguments and justifications.” It is clear from her previous statements before and after the October 7 massacre that, under the guise of the UN, she is continuing her campaign to delegitimize the creation and existence of the State of Israel.

Albanese’s report goes on to say that Israel’s actions show patterns of violence. After five months of military operations, Israel destroyed Gaza. Among other things, more than 30,000 Palestinians were killed, 70 percent of residential areas were destroyed and 80 percent of the population were forcibly displaced.

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