US EditionHow Genocide Came to Be Named and Codified
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, JUL 16 – UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese urged over 30 countries to impose sanctions and suspend state and private ties with Israel citing alleged genocide and war crimes in Gaza since October 2023.
- Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian territories, spoke at a two-day conference in Bogota urging nations to suspend all ties with Israel.
- This call followed Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel that killed 1,139 people and led to over 58,000 deaths in Israeli Gaza operations.
- Albanese accused Israel of genocide and crimes against humanity, while Israel rejected these claims as an antisemitic blood libel.
- Last week, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio sanctioned Albanese, labeling her antisemitic and forbidding U.S. persons from doing business with her.
- The conference and sanctions highlight deepening international tensions regarding enforcement of genocide prohibitions and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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In the framework of the Emergency Ministerial Conference on Palestine, held in Bogotá, Colombia, the United Nations Special Rapporteur (UN) for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, issued on Wednesday, 16 July, a call for global action to put an end to Israel’s impunity and stop the genocide that it perpetrates in Palestine. The rapporteur stressed the courage of the twelve States that agreed on six concrete measures, callin…
U.N. Rapporteur Urges Nations to Cut Ties to Israel to Stop “Genocide” in Gaza
Delegates from 30 countries gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, Tuesday for an emergency conference on the situation in Gaza. The conference is led by South Africa and Colombia, two members of The Hague Group, a coalition of nations that pledged to cut military sales to Israel and to comply with an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Tuesday, Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur …
World must boycott Israel's 'genocide economy' - UN official
Days after being sanctioned by the U.S. for anti-Israel bias, Francesca Albanese called for immediate international action against Israel. By World Israel News Staff The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur for Gaza and the West Bank called for international actions against Israel’s “genocidal economy,” days after she was sanctioned by the U.S. for her longstanding hostility towards Israel. Speaking at an international conference in Bogotá, Colom…
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