THE UNITED NATIONS, 31 Oct. - (ANA) - UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, presented her new report on Israel's war on Gaza at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, slamming Israel's allies as sustaining what she called the "collective crime" of genocide.

 

Speaking from South Africa via video-link, Albanese told the session that Israel's actions in Gaza, which she deems a genocide, are "the culmination of decades of moral and political failure within a resilient colonial world order sustained by a global system of complicity".

 

"Through unlawful actions and deliberate omissions, too many states have armed, funded and shielded Israel's militarised apartheid, allowing its settler colonial enterprise to metastasise into genocide, the ultimate crime against the indigenous people of Palestine," she added.

 

Albanese was unable to attend the meeting in New York in person due to US sanctions restricting her entry. In her opening remarks, she described the sanctions as unlawful and spiteful, and an assault on the UN.

 

The report presented by Albanese, named 'Gaza Genocide: a collective crime' and dated to 20 October, lists four ways that third parties have enabled Israel's actions in Gaza.

 

These include diplomatic and political support, military ties, the weaponisation of aid, and economic and trade ties, each of which is "indispensable to the ongoing Israeli violations of international law," according to the report.

 

The report also warned that the actions of third states, including many in the West such as the US, UK and EU members, undermine international law and "will stand in history as an offence not only to justice, but to the very idea of our common humanity".

 

The report offers a host of recommendations for states, including suspending military, trading and diplomatic relations with Israel, cooperating with and prosecuting investigations against individuals who have breached international law, and suspending Israel from the UN.

 

During the meeting, Israel's ambassador to the UN blasted the report, calling it "one-sided and lack[ing] credible legal or factual foundation," as well as labelling Albanese a witch.

 

Italy and Hungary also condemned the report, with the latter saying Albanese held an anti-Israel bias.

 

Albanese responded, saying "it's grotesque and frankly delusional that a genocidal state can't respond to the substance of my findings and the best thing that he resorts to is accusing me of witchcraft".

 

South Africa said the report is "a well-researched and thought-provoking examination of the global political conditions that have enabled the occupation and genocide".

 

Brazil thanked Albanese for the report, adding that it "reiterates support for her work and fully condemns threats to human rights special procedures".   - (ANA) -

 

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