An expert has prepared a report on the Gaza war on behalf of the UN. The title: “Anatomy of a Genocide.” Israel calls the report a disgrace to the Human Rights Council.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, sees “reasonable reasons” for assuming Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli actions show “patterns of violence,” Albanese wrote in a report titled “Anatomy of a Genocide.” The military and government knowingly violated the laws of war “in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.”
Albanese works on behalf of the UN Human Rights Council but does not speak for the United Nations. Their report is one of the most systematic attempts to date to substantiate allegations of genocide against Israel.
Israel calls report ‘a disgrace’
U.N. human rights officials have stressed that only an authorized court has the authority to determine that there is a genocide, which is particularly difficult in the Gaza war.
Israel’s diplomatic mission in Geneva called the report a disgrace to the Human Rights Council and accused Albanese of trying to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist while trying to excuse Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attacks.
“It is clear from the report that the Special Rapporteur begins with the conclusion that Israel is committing genocide and then attempts to support her distorted and politically motivated views with weak arguments and justifications,” the mission said.
Albanese has long been the target of Israeli criticism
The Italian lawyer Albanese 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.
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.