In her address to the Human Rights Council on 3 July 2025, Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, warned of a genocide unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank.
She described the situation as “apocalyptic,” stating that “Israel is responsible for one of the cruelest genocides in modern history.”
With over 200,000 Palestinians reported killed or injured and the real toll “far higher,” she accused Israel of dismantling humanitarian aid in Gaza, replacing it with a “so-called 'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation' [that] is nothing else than a death trap.”
She emphasized that this was not an isolated crisis but part of a decades-long “settler colonial project of erasure” that has intensified in recent months through military force, starvation, and mass displacement.
Albanese condemned the deep complicity of corporate and state actors in what she called an “economy of genocide.” She detailed how arms manufacturers, surveillance firms, banks, tech giants, and universities profit from the occupation, while “colonies spread, financed by banks and insurers, powered by fossil fuels and normalized by tourism platforms.”
She stressed that this is not just about “wrongful conduct” but about a global system that sustains apartheid and enables ethnic cleansing.
Citing international legal obligations, she called for a “full arms embargo on Israel,” suspension of trade agreements, and immediate disengagement from any business activity contributing to international crimes.
“What I exposed is not a list, it is a system,” she said, urging the world to act before it’s too late: “What comes next depends on all of us... It’s not a question of if, it’s just a question of when.”
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