United Nations human rights experts have warned that Israel risks becoming an international “pariah” over its “genocide” in Gaza, suggesting that the country’s UN membership could be called into question...several independent UN experts decried what they said was Israel’s
escalating violence and rights violations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, its disregard for international court rulings and its verbal attacks on the UN itself.
“I think it is unavoidable for Israel to become a pariah in the face of its continuous, relentless, vilifying assault of the United Nations, on top of millions of Palestinians,” said Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, citing verbal and military attacks on UN facilities in Gaza. “Should there be a consideration of its membership as part of this organisation, which Israel seems to have zero respect for?”. “Shockingly, in the face of the abyss reached in [occupied Palestinian territory] … most member states remained inactive at best, or actively aiding and assisting Israel’s criminal conduct,” Albanese told a news conference in Geneva on Monday, repeating allegations of genocide.
Albanese was joined by three other UN independent experts who accused Western countries of hypocrisy and double standards, for example by being more vocal about human rights violations by Russia since its invasion of Ukraine than about Israel’s actions in Gaza.
“We cannot anymore stand this kind of double standards and hypocrisy,” said George Katrougalos, the UN special rapporteur on the promotion of democratic and equitable international order, also called for Israel to be held to the same standards as all countries. He condemned its repeated attacks on critical UN officials or agencies. “We cannot anymore stand this kind of double standards and hypocrisy.”
Allahu Akhbar@Al Jazeera
Only three weeks for Israel to commemorate the Hamas attacks with much hand wringing and rending of cloth but it's become clear how their conduct before the war, and their continuing assault on Gaza has bled out any sympathy from the International community. The UN will reckon up the cost of this war of repression and genocidal intent with interest. Netanyahu must pay for his crimes.
Even the the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has accused Israel’s military of
striking schools, humanitarian workers and civilians in Gaza in a sign of growing American frustration with its close ally as the war approaches its first anniversary. saying many of the
strikes in recent weeks that injured or killed U.N. personnel and humanitarian workers “were preventable.”
