UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese accuses Israel of lying about all aspects of Gaza

• Published date: 20 April 2024
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Albanese was one of a series of invited speakers at the hearing held by members of the European Parliament. She was asked to give her view on the war in Gaza

She accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and enacting apartheid on the Palestinians.

She called "Israel's genocide in Gaza" extremely conspicuous and ostentatious and slammed the world for failing other people after Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Myanmar.

She listed three acts that, in her view, constitute genocide: killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to the group, and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.

She then cited the destruction of Gaza as a whole and the deaths of mothers as proof of this attempt at destroying the Palestinian people. "The whole society has been targeted," she said.

"The ground offensive has changed the pattern but not the scale of destruction."

Accusations of genocide

She argued that Israel had destroyed so much of Gaza that it had attempted to destroy the Palestinian way of life.

She also cited Israeli soldier's social media posts as evidence of genocide.

Albanese then accused...