GENEVA: A United Nations expert who published a report saying there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel has committed genocide in Gaza during its military campaign against Hamas said on Wednesday (M
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a side event during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Mar 26, 2024.
"It's been a difficult time," she said."I've always been attacked since the very beginning of my mandate." Albanese said one of her key findings was that Israel's executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally"subverted their protection functions in an attempt to legitimise genocidal violence against the Palestinian people"."The only reasonable inference that can be drawn from the unveiling of this policy is an Israeli state policy of genocidal violence toward the Palestinian people in Gaza," she said.
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