{"id":35932,"date":"2024-09-04T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T18:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=35932"},"modified":"2024-09-04T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T18:58:00","slug":"un-expert-says-impunity-for-israel-must-end-as-genocidal-violence-spreads-to-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/04\/un-expert-says-impunity-for-israel-must-end-as-genocidal-violence-spreads-to-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Expert Says Impunity for Israel Must End as ‘Genocidal Violence’ Spreads to West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Israeli forces are pictured moving the body of a Palestinian man during a raid in the West Bank city of Hebron on September 1, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Hazem Bader\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously, as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement, and territorial expansion,” said United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JAKE JOHNSON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sep 03, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An independent United Nations expert warned Monday that “Israel’s genocidal violence risks leaking out of Gaza<\/a> and into the occupied Palestinian territory as a whole” as Western governments, corporations<\/a>, and other institutions keep up their support for the Israeli military, which stands accused of grave war crimes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francesca Albanese<\/a>, the U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the illegally occupied<\/a> Palestinian territories, said in a statement that “there is mounting evidence that no Palestinian is safe under Israel’s unfettered control.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The writing is on the wall, and we cannot continue to ignore it,” said Albanese, who released a detailed report<\/a> in May concluding that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Israel<\/a> is guilty of genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albanese’s new statement came as the Israeli military’s largest assault on the West Bank in decades<\/a> continued into its second week. At least 29 Palestinians have been killed during the series of military raids, according to<\/a>Al Jazeera<\/em>, including at least five children<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously, as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement, and territorial expansion,” Albanese said Tuesday. “The longstanding impunity granted to Israel is enabling the de-Palestinization of the occupied territory, leaving Palestinians at the mercy of the forces pursuing their elimination as a national group.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The international community, made of both states and non-state actors, including companies and financial institutions, must do everything it can to immediately end the risk of genocide against the Palestinian people under Israel’s occupation, ensure accountability, and ultimately end Israel’s colonization of Palestinian territory,” Albanese added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read
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wall. #StopTheGenocide<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/mQuKAiA1fy<\/a><\/p>— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) September 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>