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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Int'l Lawyer | Scholar | Former UN Official | Sen.Adviser @ARDD @ar_renaissance | IG: francesca.albanese.unsr.opt Media requests: sropt.media @gmail .com

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@FranceskAlbs

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

3 days

What I have seen "rejected" by Israel & stored in warehouses in northern Sinai is not just critical supplies for survival in Gaza; it is the solidarity of so many people in the world, from Brazil, France, Kuwait and Singapore, to mention a few. More in my next report.

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@PeruginiNic

Nicola Perugini

3 days

This is the queue of humanitarian aid trucks stuck on the Egyptian side of the Gaza border, blocked by the Israeli military. This is the day after the head of UN Food Programme stated there is “full blown famine in Northern Gaza moving its way South”

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

4 months

11 January 2023 - ICJ, The Hague Watching African women & men fighting to save humanity & the int'l legal system against the ruthless attacks supported/enabled by most of the West will remain one of the defining images of our time. This will make history whatever happens.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

1 month

On the day Israel bombed a foreign embassy in a third country, it also killed @WCKitchen humanitarian workers. Israel is crossing every possible red line, still with full impunity. Sanctions now. Indictements now.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

1 month

Knowing how Israel operates,my assessment is that Israeli forces intentionally killed #WCK workers so that donors would pull out & civilians in Gaza could continue to be starved quietly.Israel knows Western countries & most Arab countries won't move a finger for the Palestinians.

@FranceskAlbs

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

1 month

On the day Israel bombed a foreign embassy in a third country, it also killed @WCKitchen humanitarian workers. Israel is crossing every possible red line, still with full impunity. Sanctions now. Indictements now.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

7 months

I look forward to the same declaration by President @vonderleyen on Israel's cutting of electricity, water and food in Gaza. If not, people could think that European institutions do not value the protection of Palestinian children, women and men as much as that of Ukranians.

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Ursula von der Leyen

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Russia’s attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror. And we have to call it as such.

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@FranceskAlbs

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

6 months

Yet another trail of egregiously false claims agst me. My trip to Australia was paid by the UN as part of my mandate's activities. Continuous defamation agst my mandate may be well remunerated,but won't work. It just wastes time that should be used to help stop violence in oPt.

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@FranceskAlbs

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

1 month

Deeply touched by the MANY who stood up agst the recent attacks on my mandate & persona. I treasure your messages of solidarity and concern, and trust me: I am fine. Let's stay focused on Palestine, the Palestinians and let's make sure we stop the ongoing genocide.

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Noura Erakat

1 month

State Department Spokesman Urged to Resign Over 'Despicable' Attack on UN Expert ⁦ @FranceskAlbs ⁩ #Gaza #Genocide #Nakba #ResignMiller

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

5 months

Fellow Europeans, Italians, Germans: after the Holocaust, we should instinctively know that Genocide starts with dehumanizing the Other. If Israel's current attack agst Palestinians doesnt prompt our strong reaction, the darkest page of our recent history has taught us nothing.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

3 months

BREAKING: Israel's "denying me entry" is not news: Israel has denied entry to ALL Special Rapporteurs/oPt since 2008! This must not become a distraction from Israel's atrocities in Gaza, which are taking a new level of horror with the bombing of people in 'safe areas' in #Rafah .

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@FranceskAlbs

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

10 days

Gaza. No journalists allowed. No human rights monitors allowed. No investigators allowed. Humanitarians severely restricted. No witnesses, other than the victims themselves.

@UNNewsArabic

أخبار الأمم المتحدة

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المباني أصبحت مجرد هياكل. المنازل التي ما زالت قائمة، حوائطها مهدمة- تقف شاهدة على الحياة التي كانت. أكثر من 70% من المنازل في أنحاء قطاع #غزة، دُمرت أو تضررت. مشاهد دمار واسع أثناء مهمة إنسانية للأونروا في مدينة غزة. شكرا للزميلة @UNWateridge

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

28 days

EU should suspend its Association Agreement with Israel with immediate effect, because of serious violations of international law.

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UN Rapporteur Calls on European Union to Stop Genocide in Gaza

"What remains of our humanity if we cannot react with indignation to what we are allowing to happen in Gaza," Albanese said.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

5 months

This raised hand will be etched into the annals of history, inscribed on the page of disgrace. This compromises the integrity of the #UNSC , which should be an instrument for peace, operating within the framework of Int'l Law rather than working against it.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

21 days

And now think of the 25,000 tons of explosives (equivalent to two nuclear bombs) used against buildings largely identified as targets by Artificial Intelligence, the unguided munitions (“dumb bombs”) and 2000-pound “bunker buster” bombs launched on densely populated areas and…

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Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

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Israeli Ambassador to the UK: "Just imagine how things would have looked... this huge missile, think about it falling in the middle of a city like Jerusalem.. look how populated it is. Just think about it hitting neighbourhoods & people & children" Just imagine.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

1 month

THREAD: 1. Anatomy of a genocide sketched out.

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States must adhere to obligations under Genocide Convention to prevent further loss of life in...

GENEVA (26 March 2024) – Israel has destroyed Gaza during five months of military operations, the Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese said today.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

2 months

I lost count of how many renowned journalists interviewed me on the alleged mistreatment of/sexual abuse against Palestinian women by Israeli forces, and never published any article on this. One day I will give a full account in my memoir.

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Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls

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Together with others colleagues, I have expressed our alarm regarding accounts of rape by the Israeli occupation forces in February this year. It is abhorrent that such reports of sexual violence continue unabated - not to mention that this is but one of multiple forms of…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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I urge the UN to authorize the deployment of a protective presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, with the explicit mandate to prevent & repe attacks against civilians. The Israeli army has abundantly proven unwilling or unable to ensure that task.

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Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti

@MustafaBarghou1

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According to the head of Al Mughayer village council in Ramallah area 1500 illegal settlers attacked the village , killed a Palestinian and injured with the Israeli army 50 including many with live ammunitions. They burned 70 houses and structures and many cars and they are…

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@FranceskAlbs

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

3 months

Western governments have suspended #UNRWA funds due to serious ALLEGATIONS agst 12 staff. Same governments have not suspended ties with the state whose army has killed 26k ppl in Gaza in 3.5m,though ICJ said it may plausibly constitute GENOCIDE. Double standards? Yes, big time.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

3 months

The day after @ICJ concluded that Israel is plausibly committing Genocide in Gaza, some states decided to defund UNRWA, collectively punishing millions of Palestinians at the most critical time, and most likely violating their obligations under the Genocide Convention.

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Sam Husseini

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Francis Boyle states that with States (including US and UK govs) cutting off funding to UNRWA, it is "no longer the case of these States aiding and abetting Israeli Genocide against the Palestinians in violation of Genocide Convention article 3 (e) criminalizing 'complicity' in…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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I am horrified by the violent actions of police at US universities smashing protests against an ongoing #genocide perpetrated by a foreign country. Such a dystopian reality. May students and faculty members be safe. May the genocide end. May justice and reason prevail.…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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I welcome #Ireland 's decision to join #SouthAfrica 's proceedings before the ICJ. Ireland has historically been a strong principled voice on the question of Palestine (while other #EU countries have lost their compass). May it continue to lead in the pursuit of justice.

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BREAKING: Ireland announces it will join South Africa in the genocide case filed against Israel before the International Court of Justice.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

5 months

16k killed (7k kids),40k injured, 1.8ml IDPs, 60% civilian infrastructure gone. No food, water, medication. Just bombs dropping. In the face of all this, Congresspeople of the only country who can stop this, legislated that antizionism=antisemitism. Alternative reality, it is.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

3 months

Decades of injustice will finally face scrutiny. ICJ hearings on Israel's illegal occupation starts on Monday. 52 countries & 3 int'l organizations will participate in the oral proceedings, more than in any other case in ICJ's history since 1946.

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World Court to Review 57-Year Israeli Occupation

An unprecedented number of countries and international organizations are expected to participate in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) oral hearings on Israel’s occupation beginning February...

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

24 days

I truly hope Iran's military response to Israel's bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria doesn't escalate into a full blown war. At the same time I urge everyone to remain committed to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its brutal violence in the West Bank. This is the only path…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

3 months

Imagine as a parent having to fight to get food for your child who is dying of hunger: total collapse of civil order. That’s the situation that Israel has created in Gaza. Shame on all of us for allowing this betrayal of humanity.

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World Food Programme stops deliveries to northern Gaza - BBC News

The agency says lorries faced gunfire and looting. The UN has warned of looming famine in the north.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

1 month

What about the investigation of the 33,000+ Palestinians, including 13,000+ children, that you have killed in the past six months?

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Israel Defense Forces

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The conclusion of the investigation regarding the incident in which @WCKitchen employees were mistakingly targeted by IDF forces was presented to IDF Chief of the General Staff LTG Herzi Halevi yesterday. Measures taken following the tragic incident include: the dismissal of the…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

4 months

1,000 children AMPUTATED without anaesthesia bcs Israel does not allow its entry into Gaza, together with many other essential supplies. "The monstruosity of our century."

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Noura Erakat

4 months

This is the story of Ghazal, one of the 9,000 Palestinian children who have had to amputate 1 or more limbs and one of 1K children who endured it without anesthesia. This is not okay & worse when rationalized in any way. #gaza #nakba #genocide

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

3 months

Le 'plus grand massacre antisémite de notre siècle'? Non, M. @EmmanuelMacron . Les victimes du 7/10 n'ont pas été tuées à cause de leur judaïsme, mais en réaction de l'oppression d'Israël. La France & la communauté int'le n'ont rien fait pour l'empêcher. Mes respects aux victimes.

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Le Monde

3 months

Emmanuel Macron rend hommage aux « suppliciés du 7 octobre », dans une France travaillée par un « antisémitisme rampant »

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@FranceskAlbs

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

5 months

We have seen it in Sarajevo, it was 1992.

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Birzeit University

5 months

The Israeli occupation destroys the central archive of #Gaza municipality, executing thousands of historical documents, and deliberately razing all life forms; erasing the city and its #history . It is worth noting that the archive holds #documents more than a hundred years old.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

6 months

Under Int'l Law,Israel has the right to PROTECT itself,not to WAGE WAR (i.e. self-defense under art 51 UNCharter) agst the people it has kept under belligerent occupation since'67. Gaza IS "occupied" given Israel's effective control,regardless of Hamas' existence. ICJ (2004):👇

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@AvivaKlompas

Aviva Klompas

6 months

United Nations Special Rapporteur and renowned Hamas apologist, @FranceskAlbs has gone too far. Speaking at an event in Australia she said "Israel cannot claim the right of self-defense against a threat that emanates from a territory it occupies." Things to know Francesca: 1.…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Each heinous crime the Israeli army is committing against exhausted and traumatised civilians in Gaza is part and parcel of a genocidal campaign. Looking forward to @KarimKhanQC 's action. This is the greatest moment of truth in the ICC history.

@DrMadsGilbert

Dr. Mads Gilbert

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I just got this extreme msg. from Gaza’s MoH Dr. Yousef Abu-Al Rish about the Israeli siege on Al-Shifa Hospital, just now, Sun. March 31st. Read! Spread! Act! Demand concrete pressure on ISrael from your government! Dr. Mads “It's day 14 of the siege imposed on Al-Shifa…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

2 months

To US audiences: in 5 months Israel has killed as many children as 675 Sandy Hook massacres combined. That is more than 4 Sandy Hook a day for Palestinian children. For 150 days. With US-manifactured weapons. Can you imagine the level of grief of the Palestinian people?

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

5 months

Again, one of the most profound liturgies I have heard. From Bethlehem.

@yarahawari

Dr. Yara Hawari د. يارا هواري

5 months

A Christmas message from Rev. @MuntherIsaac . “If you are not appalled by what is happening in Gaza…there is something wrong with your humanity… we, the Palestinian people, will recover… but for those who are complicit, I feel sorry for you. Will you ever recover from this?”

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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The ICJ has yet to fully examine the merits of the South Africa v Israel case but has recognised the plausibility that Israel has committed acts of genocide in Gaza. The Court has recommended several provisional measures that have not been acted upon (and openly violated) by…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

25 days

Germany bans a former minister of a European state essentially for his stance on Israel/Palestine. I continue to believe that the Question of Palestine is a test for western liberal values. Et voilà.

@DiEM_25

DiEM25

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Yanis Varoufakis BANNED by Germany's Interior Ministry from carrying out any political activity in Germany. They're so desperate to silence anyone who dares speak out against Germany's complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. But DiEM25 and @mera25_de will never be silenced!

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

2 months

Palestinians, aka Palestine Arabs, have resisted domination and foreign control all along. The fact that western leaders cannot register that even today, is because of colonial amnesia and persisting racism. Nothing else.

@PeruginiNic

Nicola Perugini

2 months

Balfour’s visit in Jerusalem, 1925. Palestinian general strike. Shops closed.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

3 months

Defunding UNRWA at this critical time overtly defies @ICJ 's order to allow effective humanitarian assistance "to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in Gaza". This will entail legal responsibilities - or the demise of the int'l legal system.

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3 months

@UNLazzarini This may be Israel's intent

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

1 month

Courage is a heavy gift to carry, but not as heavy as 13,000 small coffins weighing on our conscience.

@ZahiraJaser

Dr Zahira Jaser

1 month

Thank you @AnnelleSheline for crying our tears. What you have done requires incredible courage and moral standing. 🙏🏼

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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I am extremely alarmed by information that Dr. Adnan Albursh, a well-known surgeon at #alshifa_hospital , has died while detained by Israeli forces in the Ofer military prison. While I acquire more information, I URGE the diplomatic community to intervene with CONCRETE MEASURES to…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

4 months

Israel's conduct in Gaza is illegal, immoral and irresponsible.

@democracynow

Democracy Now!

4 months

U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory @FranceskAlbs describes Israel pushing Palestinians out of Gaza to other Arab states as racist forced displacement. "This is like saying that Italians can go anywhere because they are European."

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

4 months

In Gaza, Palestinian children are given sedatives to alleviate their pain while dying -as they cannot be treated. 80days of heavy Israeli bombing have devastated the health system. This level of horror is unmatched in our lifetime. #CeasefireNOW .

@abierkhatib

Abier

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Sean Casey, WHO emergency medical team coordinator from Al Aqsa Hospital in #Gaza “ A 9 yo child named Ahmad was given sedations to ease his suffering as he dies” #Germany : we support that #Israel

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

6 months

Israeli gov. demands my dismissal NOT bcs of my alleged "anti-Israeli mindset", but bcs I expose ISR's violations of Int'l Law, including: -Settlements as war crimes -Apartheid -The 'forever occupation' as quintessentially illegal -War crimes, CAH & the risk of genocide in Gaza.

@simon_rosenberg

Simon Rosenberg

@simon_rosenberg

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UN special rapporteur #FrancescaAlbanese said the Australian government’s reluctance to openly criticise Israel was “not only unacceptable – it’s dangerous”. “Australia should be consistent with its international law obligations” #CeasefireNOW #auspol

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

2 months

Toddler Anhar from north Gaza had puffy cheeks & bright eyes. 4.5 months of Israel assault turned him into skin & bones. He died of starvation on Tuesday. I can’t even begin to process the horror his parents may have gone through being unable to feed him. (via @muhammadshehad2 )

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

1 month

Thank you South Africa for taking this stand, too.

@SaulStaniforth

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

1 month

At the UN Human Rights Council this morning, the representative of South Africa condemned attacks on the UNs Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory ( @FranceskAlbs ) & called for those responsible for the intimidation and harassment to stop.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

2 months

"There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard" (A. Roy) And when those who have been deliberately silenced speak, they are a powerhouse.

@_SJPeace_

StanceGrounded

2 months

They only gave her two minutes to speak so she ate them up in 1 minute 🇵🇸 📍Raliegh North Carolina City Council

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

2 months

The colossal amount of evidence concerning int'l crimes committed by Israel in Gaza just over the past 6months could keep the @IntlCrimCourt busy for the next five decades, especially at the current proceedings pace. Accountability is more needed than ever.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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The #US govt seems ready to undermine every basic tenet of International Law to shield #Israel from accountability - even in the face of an ongoing #genocide . This risks dragging all of us into an icreasingly insecure and lawless world.

@AssalRad

Assal Rad

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🇺🇸: Laws don’t apply to Israel StateSpox Patel on ICC/Israel: “We do not believe the ICC has jurisdiction on this, that being said, we work closely with the ICC on a number of key areas… Ukraine, Darfur, Sudan, but on this particular instance they just do not have jurisdiction”

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

4 months

This is absolutely disgraceful & orwellian. One would think that if there is a place where the danger of dehumanizing rethoric should instinctively be understood and averted is Germany. People in Germany: please do not stay silent. Let humanity prevail.

@RnaudBertrand

Arnaud Bertrand

4 months

Jüdische Allgemeine, biggest Jewish newspaper in Germany: "The civilians in Gaza are not innocent: If there is such a thing as collective responsibility for crimes, then this applies in the case of October 7th."

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

4 months

Trials will also be needed. Criminals who have planned, ordered & executed such crimes must be brought to justice. National courts with jurisdiction over war crimes, CAH& genocide must be activated, as the @IntlCrimCourt is proving slow/ineffective on the Situation of Palestine.

@jamesdenselow

James Denselow

4 months

More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago - @Save_GlobalNews Lifetimes of pain management and medical care will be needed

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

6 months

13.000 Palestinian children arrested/detained in the last 20 years alone, before Oct7. Many taken by soldiers from the quiet of their home at NIGHT. Palestinian children have been UNCHILDED incl. in western media/political discourse who transformed them into political capital.

@AymanM

Ayman

6 months

You are about to see in real time over the next 4 days how the media can choose who it humanizes and who it villainizes, who is a child and who is a minor, who is a mother and who is an accomplice. Who is a hostage and who is a prisoner. In short who is innocent and who is not.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

2 months

In 5 months Israel has killed more children in a strip of land the size of Philadelphia than all conflicts worldwide did in the past 4 years combined. Destroying a population from its roots.

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@UNLazzarini

Philippe Lazzarini

2 months

Staggering. The number of children reported killed in just over 4 months in #Gaza is higher than the number of children killed in 4 years of wars around the world combined. This war is a war on children. It is a war on their childhood and their future. #ceasefireNow for the…

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Having once again been arbitrarily denied access to the Occupied Palestinian Territory by Israel, I have travelled across the region to meet with Palestinians and others who could help me better understand/assess developments on the ground. Based on the information received, I…

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Wait: Is Israel lifting the 16yo blockade? Otherwise this is a joke. Palestinians in Gaza have nowhere to go.

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BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian civilians in Gaza to “leave now” because the Israeli military is going to “turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble”

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I hoped my "anatomy of a genocide" report to the @UN_HRC would be a wake-up call for States who are aiding/abetting Israel's genocide in Gaza. Instead,despite several UNGA res +one UNSC res ordering a ceasefire, & @CIJ_ICJ provisional measures, this genocide seems unstoppable.

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I have been working nonstop for the past 6 months covering what’s happening in Gaza, but what I saw today while visiting Al-Shifa hospital was unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed before : Israeli occupation forces executed 300 Palestinians in and around the hospital, and this…

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Looking at the occupied Palestinian territory/Israel today, the gap between global political leaders & reality has never been more evident. Meanwhile global youth are mobilizing for justice. I applaud their effort, encouraging them to stay wise & fair. They are a beacon of hope.

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Greta Thunberg

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The death rate in Gaza is at a historic high, with thousands of children killed in just a few weeks. Demanding an end to this inexcusable violence is a question of basic humanity. Silence is complicity. You cannot be silent in an unfolding genocide.

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Unexpected question indeed.

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Naturally, this question came from a German journalist working for a major Berlin newspaper. Watch @FranceskAlb 's response.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Congratulations to you @mehdirhasan on regaining ALL of your independence, may you enjoy it to the fullest. And good luck to @zeteo_news - cannot think of a better name for a serious media platform.

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I’m so happy that @mehdirhasan has gone independent Fantastic journalism right here.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Starving people by design. Something inside me refuses to let this sink in.

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Kenneth Roth

4 months

Because of Israel's obstructions, “people in Gaza risk dying of hunger just miles from trucks filled with food,” says @WFP . This is not a natural consequence of war but a deliberate strategy, despite denials by Israel's lawyers in the ICJ genocide case.

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Finally a powerful coverage of the Israeli onslaught by @CNN . Think about how many of the 30K+ Palestinians killed could have been saved, had this been the standard of coverage by western media in the past five months.

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It’s hard to comprehend the deaths of 12,800 children. We put up figures of children on our studio walls - one for each child killed in Gaza during the war. They’re dying from airstrikes and now malnutrition and dehydration. These are some of their stories.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Settler-colonialism can speak with one voice like no other unlawful endeavour. We the People can change this: in the West, by using our privilege to demand equal respect for international law among nations.

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Mike Pence

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America stands with Israel today at a critical moment in the life of our relationship. We stand with Israel for the same reason the American people have always stood with Israel. We stand with Israel because her cause is our cause, her values are our values, her fight is our…

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#Rafah stands as the last line of Palestinian existence in Gaza, amidst the relentless anguish faced by the people trapped therein. How can we possibly allow another Nakba? Have we really lost our minds??

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Itay Epshtain

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BREAKING: Speaking at a presser this evening, #Israel 's Netanyahu confirmed ground operations in #Rafah will coincide with the forcible transfer of already displaced #Palestinians . He did not divulge as to whether, but I suspect his former National Security Advisor and close…

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This new @WorldBank - #UN report shows that the estimates of the Gaza destruction used in my "Anatomy of a genocide" report were conservative. The report exposes a level of erasure of a society that is unprecedented in our time:

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Joint World Bank, UN Report Assesses Damage to Gaza’s Infrastructure

The cost of damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza is estimated at around $18.5 billion according to a new report released today by the World Bank and the United Nations, with financial support of...

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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A desperate cry from UNRWA on behalf of Palestinians in Gaza. Read. Post. Repost. Wake up the apathetic or false consciousness of many in our time.

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Thomas White

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People are hungry and just desperate for food @UNRWA convoy in #Gaza City this week. 40% of the population at risk of famine. More regular supplies needed - require safe and sustainable #humanitarain access everywhere including to the North of Gaza

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Like in 1948. Like in 1967. So in 2023\2024. Under the fog of war Israel creates conditions for significant and sudden instances of ethnic cleansing.

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Saul Staniforth

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The Israeli military have destroyed an entire city so the people who used to live there can't return. But this isn't genocide, right? @Hind_Gaza reporting

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As of Oct7, Israel has killed a higher share of population in Gaza (1.1%) than that killed during the Russia invasion of Ukraine (0.2%) & the war in Iraq (0.8%). In much shorter time. No war in this century comes even closer to ISR’s extermination campaign in Gaza. #CeasefireNOW

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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The "Palestinian lobby" -falsely accused by UNWatch of funding my trip to Australia- confirms the UN funded it. Some media are so obsessed with smearing critics of Israeli occupation that they relay info from tainted sources without the bare minimum of due diligence. @SkyNewsAust

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Thank you @krystalball for breaking down my report "Anatomy of a Genocide".

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Here's @krystalball breaking down UN report in the wake of the State Department's attacking its author, Francesca Albanese, as anti-Semitic because of the horrifying details of evidence that Israel committing genocide

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Dear President @vonderleyen , the best way to commemorate the victims of a past genocide would be to use all your powers to avoid another genocide, as the one in the making in Gaza. Else your important commemoration today risks sounding hollow.

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I honour the memory of the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. I also honour the Rwandan nation as a whole, who found the strength to forgive. While the past shall never be forgotten, Rwanda has emerged ready to build a bright future as a modern and united country.

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Thank U @azaizamotaz9 for risking Ur life during 108d of relentless bombing to expose reality in Gaza firsthand.Your work,with other brave Gaza journalists(dead/alive)is an indelible lesson for journalism esp those who rely mostly on ISR army/gvt narrative.Intl journos:go to Gaza

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So, I had to evacuate for a lot of reasons you all know some of it but not all of it. Thank you all Pray for Gaza.

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With more than 80 per cent of schools destroyed or damaged, 625,000 students without any ability to study, and no possibility to pursue higher education as all universities have been destroyed. This is Gaza after 6+ months of genocidal violence, and the long-term impact is…

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UN Special Procedures

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UN experts condemn callous #Israeli attacks on educational infrastructure, cultural heritage sites and libraries in #Gaza . “The foundations of Palestinian society are being reduced to rubble, their history is being erased.”

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Ask yourself how you would feel about a country starving you and your children by stopping food at the border, bombing the food airdropped to bypass the blockade and shooting at people queueing for the few aid trucks allowed in.

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“This is what awaited the children if they entered the sea to take the food..A number of children killed. Bombs dropped over Gaza’s sea as children swam out to retrieve the air-dropped aid. ‘Israel’’s most powerful weapon is your silence” - khaled_al_sabbah on IG

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It is unclear on which grounds - other than overt racism - @NikkiHaley urges that Palestinians should be displaced to Egypt. Forced displacement is prohibited under Intl Law & constitutes a Crime agst Humanity when it occurs in the context of widespread attacks agst civilians.

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Petra Schurenhofer

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@democracynow @JehadAbusalim @FranceskAlbs Here is Nimarata Randhawa (aka Nikki Haley) saying the quiet part out loud: "The Palestinians should go to the Rafah gate and Egypt should take them."

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During my brief time in #Doha I had the privilege to meet @azaizamotaz9 & @WaelDahdouh . May their voices continue to be heard. I also visited hospitalised Gaza children -some w/o limbs or paralised due to ISR munitions- the sense of "irreparable harm"(cit @CIJ_ICJ ) is everywhere.

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It was a pleasure to meet Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 🇵🇸

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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I condemn Israel's airstrikes in Gaza to allegedly 'deter' Islamic Jihad's possible retaliation for its leader's arrest. As Int'l Law only permits the use of force in self-defense, Operation Breaking Dawn is a flagrant act of aggression. Illegal. Immoral. Irresponsible.

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Epistemic violence.

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Tiberius

3 months

Arab children are ‘found dead’ but white Europeans are ‘killed in strikes’. @BBCWorld — the home of racist journalists.

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My arrival at @SciencePo Paris last Friday. It was a wonderful event, despite the painful content of my presentation. Two considerations: 1) The young generation is AMAZING. Wherever I go, I meet inquisitive, competent, articulate, eloquent young people who are ready to take…

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Deema Azreen

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مقررة الأمم المتحدة الخاصة المعنية بحقوق الإنسان في الأراضي الفلسطينية فرانشيسكا ألبانيزي تحظى بترحيب كبير في معهد العلوم السياسية بباريس. #فيديو "Special UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, receives a warm welcome at the…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Genocide is a dormant gene of settler-colonialism.Seeing ISR as the state born out of the Holocaust, some countries cant accept that it might commit atrocities,incl genocide. Acknowledging ISR's settler-colonial origins would help remedy that false perception & move twd justice.

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It is disgraceful & shameful to see western gvts: - largely unable to find their feet while ISR conducts its most ruthless military operation agst a defensless population. - travelling to the "region" w/o going to Gaza. - nochalantly suppressing pro-ceasefire protests at home.

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Forced displacement is a crime against humanity. Israel has been perpetrating that with impunity during decades of illegal occupation. It has now taken it to a new level by terrorizing people through bombing, starvation and induced disease.

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Itay Epshtain

4 months

#Israel 's Smotrich, Ben Gvir, and yes, #Netanyahu and the vast majority of his coalition government have forcibly transferred #Palestinians within the West Bank and #Gaza . As I told the #UNSC last week, they intend to deport them on maas, unless stopped.

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1/2. I never thought we would witness mass starvation of these proportions used in the 21st century. Yet here it is in Gaza, after 100 days of bombing, with insufficient food, fuel & water allowed in. Children are dying first. Adults will follow. Before our eyes.

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Monica Marks

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“Doctors in Gaza said that children, weakened by lack of food, had died from hypothermia and that several newborn babies with mothers who were undernourished had not survived for more than a few days.”

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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The horror that we, UN Independent Experts, have been investigating in the oPt these past months, is unspeakable. We ask for immediate ACCOUNTABILITY and effective PROTECTION.

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UN Special Procedures

3 months

#Israel /oPt: UN experts appalled by egregious human rights violations to which #Palestinian women & girls continue to be subjected in #Gaza & #WestBank , incl. credible reports of arbitrary executions, sexual assault & other degrading treatments

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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I commend the @GovernmentZA for invoking #GenocideConvention & requesting #ICJ provisional measures to stop the carnage in Gaza. I encourage other member states to make meanigful/honest submissions & contribute to save lives. The survival of an entire people is on the line.

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PRESS RELEASE: #SouthAfrica institutes proceedings against #Israel and asks the #ICJ to indicate provisional measures

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Babies let to die in hospitals. One does not need to be a parent to find this excruciating, absolutely unbearable. The human rights lawyer in me wants to believe there will be justice one day.

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Rohan Talbot

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As others have said, the lack of media attention in this is absolutely outrageous. The Israeli military forced staff to abandon these babies, and left them to die alone on their hospital beds. How can any human heart bear the thought of it?

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Every time I listen to Her, I feel energized, enlightened, hopeful. The representative all people should desire to have. May I have the honor to meet Her in person one day. I will bow to Her in admiration and gratitude. Thank you @GovernmentZA

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Abier

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This woman has balls, integrity, and wisdom more than the collective of western foreign ministers combined. Respect

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"We demand of the US administration to study the report, consider it carefully and pass judgement on its merits, not ad hominem. We call all states, global civil society and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to support the Special Rapporteur in her efforts to fulfill her…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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I commend the states in @UN_HRC who voted to pass a resolution calling to halt arms transfers to Israel at this critical moment. Next step for all states is to enforce this as well as recent UN resolutions to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza. This is in line with states'…

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Nada Tarbush

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BREAKING: UN Human Rights Council in Geneva adopts resolution calling for arms transfers to Israel to cease✌🏽

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Why blocking aid to startving people? Because this is what #Apartheid , the organic by-product of settler-colonialism, looks like. Segregation and oppression pushed to the extreme. #CeasefireNOW

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Why would you block aid to starving people? Why.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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To Western governments: it is so disturbing to see you not condemning the horrendous,unspeakable crimes that ISR occupation commits in Gaza daily, IN THE SAME WAY as you did for the crimes on #Oct7 . The West’s double standards is what got us here. Time to end it. @IntlCrimCourt

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Al Jazeera English

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A Palestinian family in Gaza says they witnessed the summary execution of 15 men when Israeli soldiers raided their apartment last month.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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The essence of settler-colonialism is to destroy to replace (P. Wolfe). Indigenous people are erased home by home, body after body.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Not sure if it’s worse extorting false confessions of Hamas affiliation to punish the only agency able to assist Palestinians in devastated Gaza, or cutting funds to the same agency based on such confessions. #CeasefireNow

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Preparing to go to 'the region'. First stop, Jordan. I continue to seek access to the occupied Palestinian territory, in line with my UN mandate and procedures.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Honored to be speaking at the European Parliament today, and present my 'Anatomy of a Genocide' report. Grateful to both hosts and guests.

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Manu Pineda🔻🇵🇸💔🏴

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🇵🇸 Este martes 9 de abril tendremos la oportunidad de escuchar en el Parlamento Europeo a @FranceskAlbs , relatora de la ONU para los DDHH en #Palestina . Su informe “Anatomía de un genocidio” es la mejor radiografía del terror que está viviendo el pueblo palestino. Necesitamos…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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" free Palestine scares them bcs it is the ghost of their own sins, rediscovered as a living, breathing human. The current political structures of colonial projects cannot afford it, so they try to uproot it. Bcs it is a fight between all colonialists and their fake identities.."

@alon_mizrahi

Alon Mizrahi I without equality there's no freedom

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Millions of people are scratching their heads, not knowing what to make of America's endless commitment to a mass extermination of people, an event that is nothing more than inflicting the most horrific punishment known to humanity on a defenseless group of people. Together…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Many ppl are notifying me that apparently Twitter/X is #shadowbanning me. Why would @elonmusk do this? This would be an intolerable affront to freedom of expression and to @UN_SPExperts . I am sure @twitter @X will clarify and fix the matter.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Regrettably, this sounds like: - putting the onus to end the carnage in Gaza on the Palestinians, including those being slaughtered in Gaza; - justifying and deflecting the attention from the atrocities committed by the Israeli army in Gaza. Unacceptable.

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Dennis Ross

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The suffering of Palestinians in Gaza is real. Why not call on Hamas to release all hostages and agree to have its leaders leave Gaza. They could save Palestinians from paying a further price. Real support for Palestinians should produce such a call. Isn’t it time for that?

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My #AnatomyofGenocide report provides the frame and analytical tools to understand what Israel is doing to the people in Gaza. With every passing day new evidence of the extent Israel has considered everything "targetable", "destroyable", and everyone "killable" in Gaza, emerges…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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President Biden, @potus , please, please intervene to stop this senseless carnage of innocent civilians in Gaza. Every additional day the int'l community doesnt act to stop Israel's extermination campaign is another nail in the coffin of humanity & the int'l law based order.

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Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده

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Israel is completely demolishing residential neighborhoods over the heads of its inhabitants. Soldiers of the Israeli army are sharing footage of the destruction of a residential area in northeast Gaza. #GazaGenocide

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