Francesca Albanese was subjected to numerous threats while preparing a report on Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip (Geneva International Center for Justice)

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine, Francesca Albanese, said that “the colonial policy pursued by the Israeli settler occupation seeks complete control over the Palestinian territories,” and that “the systematic undermining of the basic rights of the children of Palestine is a way to target an entire people and uproot them.”

Albanese added that the occupation's measures and violations in the Gaza Strip were shocking, and that she was not waiting for a day to "deal with what is considered a crime of genocide in Palestine."

This came in a symposium organized by the Geneva International Center for Justice, in cooperation with several other organizations, within the 55th session of the Human Rights Council currently underway in Geneva, which continues until April 4.

Last week, Albanese confirmed - in a press conference about her report submitted to the Human Rights Council on the devastating Israeli war on the Gaza Strip - that after 5 months of analyzing the massacres carried out by Israel in Gaza, the reports confirm the presence of elements indicating that Israel is committing the crime of genocide. collective in Gaza, and its elements have been completed.

Starvation policy

In a statement issued by the Center - and seen by Al Jazeera Net - the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine placed strong blame on the international community for its failure to prevent the crime of genocide from occurring, stressing that “measures could have been taken to prevent its occurrence, especially since it began through the Israeli policy of starvation of the Palestinian people.” In the Gaza Strip through a harsh siege that lasted for several years, and it was clear that its goal was collective punishment of the Palestinian people.

Albanese accused the Israeli occupation of “creating living conditions that stripped children in Palestine of the innocent life of childhood.” “The Palestinian child grew up in fear, personal threats, destruction, killing, and daily challenges, and does not see other horizons for his life.”

It also called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and for international judicial authorities to undertake their procedures to hold Israel accountable for its threat to the existence of an entire people, which is a threat to the principles of the entire international system.

It is noteworthy that Francesca Albanese said that she had been subjected to attacks and received numerous threats since she began her mission to prepare a report on Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip.

The symposium was an opportunity to present more regarding the report on the genocide in Palestine (Geneva International Center for Justice)

"Western collusion"

In the same statement, Co-Director of the Palestinian Institute for Public Diplomacy, Rula Shadid, condemned the complicity of Western powers in the ongoing war on Gaza, and the continued provision of weapons while Palestinians are being killed on a large scale.

Rola Shadeed called on the international community to “stop tolerating Israel’s crimes against humanity,” and “emphasized the violations against Palestinian women at the hands of the occupation forces, which are committing acts that have led to genocide.”

In exclusive statements to Al Jazeera Net, the Executive Director of the Geneva International Center for Justice, Naji Haraj, said that the importance of this symposium lies in the fact that it is being held within the meetings of the 55th session of the Human Rights Council currently underway in Geneva, especially after the report presented by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestine, Francesca Albanese. To the member states of the Council.

Genocide report

Haraj added that this symposium also focused on “the situation of women and children as an essential target part of the ongoing crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” and thus “we provided more opportunity for the United Nations rapporteur to meet with civil society organizations, member states, and the press to present more of what is related to her report.” “On the genocide in Palestine.

Regarding the primary goal that the Geneva International Center for Justice seeks, the Executive Director of the Center said, “We seek to put more pressure on member states and countries that can take appropriate measures to stop these violations, end the suffering of the Palestinian people, and end the occupation, and thus end the suffering of the Palestinian people that has been going on for decades.”

The Geneva International Justice Center is a non-governmental organization based in Geneva, where the European Center for the United Nations and international organizations concerned with human rights are based. It is concerned with documenting human rights violations, especially issues of ill-treatment in prisons, torture, enforced disappearance, unfair trials, and violations against women and children.

Source: Al Jazeera