Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Clear evidence Israel committed 'genocide' in Gaza: UN expert

from Daily Sabah

A top U.N. rights expert has accused Israel of committing several acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing in its brutal war on Gaza.

Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories, said Monday there were clear indications that Israel had violated three of the five acts listed under the U.N. Genocide Convention.

"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," she said in a report, which was immediately rejected by Israel as an "obscene inversion of reality."

Albanese, an independent expert appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council but who does not speak on behalf of the United Nations, said she had found "reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of ... acts of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has been met."...

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