According to the expert, the United States has been a facilitator of Tel Aviv’s actions in the conflict, which already threatens the entire region, with particular impact on Gaza and the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon and Iran.

In a recent conversation with the press during a visit to the UN headquarters in New York, Albanese warned of the expansion of genocidal violence that has metastasized to other parts of the Palestinian territories. She also denounced the exposure of Palestinians in the West Bank to the same practices and abuses, often rape, and even torture, as in Gaza. “(…) if there has been no military action or presence of Hamas in the West Bank, It’s not as if the former justifies what Israel has done in Gaza,” she specified.

Since October 7th, 2023, more than 700 Palestinians have died in the West Bank, including 170 children, she said.

In the opinion of the rapporteur, Israel imposes a “colonial erasure” in its efforts to diminish the Palestinian identity in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The expert condemned Tel Aviv’s attacks against the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), considered a “symbol of Palestinias”, and who were seriously attacked after the Israeli Parliament approved a law to prevent its work in the country.

The fate of UNRWA depends solely on the General Assembly, which is the only one that can decide its future, said Albanese.

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