UN investigator says US sanctions over her criticism of Israel will seriously impact her life
ROME (AP) – A independent UN researcher and Israel’s Gaza policies clearly Critic Sanctions imposed on him in the near future by the Trump administration It will have serious effects on life and work.
Francesca Albania, the UN Special Rapporteur of the West Bank and Gaza, is a member of a group of 47 members of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. He was assigned to investigate human rights violations in Palestinian regions and became vocal about what he described as “genocide .. Israel against Palestinians in Gaza.
Both Israel and the United States, who provided military support to their close ally, strongly rejected this accusation. Washington called it a “political and economic war campaign against the US and Israel, and at the beginning of this month, he imposed sanctions on Albanian after an unsuccessful pressure campaign to force him to remove him from his post.
On Tuesday, the Associated Press in Rome said that individuals approved by the US could not get financial interactions or credit cards with any American bank, and said, “It is very serious to be on the list of people approved by the US.”
When he used “politically”, the sanctions said “harmful, dangerous”.
“My daughter is American. I live in the United States and I have some assets there. Of course it will hurt me, Alban Albanian said. “What can I do? I did everything I do in good faith, and my devotion to justice is more important than personal interests.”
The sanctions did not determine the Albanian from his work – or from the perspectives – and in July, he issued a new report on Palestinian territory, which focused on what he defined as “Israel’s genocide economy”.
“There is an entire ecosystem that allows the development of Israel’s occupation. And then it turned into a genocide economy,” he said.
At the end of the report, the Albanians require sanctions against Israel and the prosecution of “architects, administrators and emphasis of this genocide”.
Albanians, a recent change in perceptions in Europe and the world, Images of weakened children in Gaza and dozens of reports Hunger deaths after about 22 months of war.
“Shocking,” he said. He continued: “I do not think there are words to describe what happened to the Palestinian people.”
The war began on October 7, 2023, when the militants led by Hamas attacked Israel and killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians and captured 251 people. According to the Ministry of Health, who did not distinguish between warriors and civilians, but more than half of the dead were women and children, Israel’s retaliation campaign killed more than 60,000 Palestinians.
Approximately 21 months after the conflict of the majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million people of Gaza, the United Nations says that hunger is widespread after a long Israeli blockade in foods entering the region and medical care.
