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The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, has accused Israel of committing one of the worst genocides in modern history, placing direct blame on the international community for its failure to stop the massacres unfolding in the Gaza Strip for months.
In her address to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday, Albanese stated that what is happening in Gaza has gone beyond all definitions of a humanitarian catastrophe, describing the enclave as a “deliberate death trap” designed to depopulate the territory through mass killing, starvation, and forced displacement.
Albanese called on the United Nations and member states to impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel and suspend trade agreements and investment partnerships, asserting that continuing economic relations amid a genocide amounts to international complicity in the violations.
In the same context, Amnesty International declared that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war against civilians in Gaza, urging an immediate lifting of the siege, an end to the genocide, and the imposition of sanctions on Israeli officials involved in policies of mass starvation and collective targeting.
Albanese had previously revealed that over 60 international companies are complicit in supporting Israeli military operations — either by supplying weapons and equipment or by providing surveillance tools and technology used in the assault on Gaza and in settlements across the West Bank.
She named major corporations, including:
Lockheed Martin, Leonardo, Caterpillar, HD Hyundai, along with tech giants Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
She affirmed that these companies are financially linked to the apartheid and militarization system led by Israel, noting that the findings in her report are based on over 200 official submissions by states, human rights institutions, academics, and even some companies themselves.
The UN Special Rapporteur explicitly called for international accountability for the CEOs of these companies, arguing that profit is the primary driver behind the continued Israeli aggression on Gaza — indicating the presence of a global network of interests that both fuels and benefits from the violations.
As expected, Israel and the United States rejected the report, calling it a “distortion of facts” and an “overreach of the Rapporteur’s mandate.”
Israel’s delegation in Geneva called for the report’s recommendations to be ignored, while the U.S. Mission to the UNdemanded that the UN Secretary-General condemn the report and take steps to remove Albanese from her post.
With every report that exposes another layer of the bloody reality in Gaza, the U.S. further discredits the international justice system — not only refusing to condemn the atrocities, but actively seeking to punish any independent voice that dares to describe the situation truthfully.
From exerting pressure on UN staff to launching public smear campaigns against UN experts, Washington continues to pursue a soft intimidation strategy aimed at silencing the human rights narrative in favor of the Israeli narrative.
Thus, defending international law becomes a punishable act, brutality is rewarded with weapons and support, and victims are held accountable for resisting extermination.
