UN rapporteur says Israel’s actions in Palestine ‘culmination of decades of moral and political failure’

The UN’s special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) on Tuesday said Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports. Francesca Albanese described the attacks as “the culmination of decades of moral and political failure” and condemned the complicity of countries that continue to arm and support Israel. “On day 751 of the genocide in Gaza, I begin by honoring the victims and survivors of all genocides, past and present,” said Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory that has been occupied since 1967, in a virtual address to the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee. She said that her report on the OPT reveals that “these horrors are not an […]