That is the only way to stop the genocide in this Palestinian territory, the UN official wrote on her X account.

Albanese also criticized the decades-long expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

“Israel has been building illegal settlements for 56 years, 300 of which are in the West Bank and East Jerusalem alone, and they continue to grow,” she pointed out.

She said it was hard to see how mere words of condemnation could undo decades of defiance of international law.

The questioning coincided with the Israeli Government’s announcement this week of a plan to build more than 3,000 housing units in settlements surrounding occupied East Jerusalem.

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