Tuesday, October 28, 2025

60-plus states complicit in Israeli genocide: Expert briefs UN General Assembly in scathing new report

 

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The United Nations special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories has briefed members of the world body’s General Assembly on how more than sixty governments, most importantly Western powers and several Arab states, have been enabling the Israeli regime’s “genocidal machinery” in Gaza.

On Tuesday, Francesca Albanese delivered her presentation of her latest report, whose advance version had been released less than a week ago, to the General Assembly remotely, at the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, in Cape Town, South Africa.

According to her, the 24-page report, titled Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime, showed how those states have been turning a blind eye as the coastal sliver’s two-million-plus war-hit and besieged population was being bombed, starved, and erased.

The vast web of military, economic, and diplomatic complicity stretched from Washington and Berlin to London and beyond, she noted, speaking from South Africa, the symbolic ground for anti-apartheid struggle.

Albanese said global powers had “harmed, founded, and shielded Israel’s militarized apartheid,” allowing its settler-colonial project to metastasize into genocide, “the ultimate crime against the indigenous people of Palestine.”

Her 24-page report traced how weapons, technology, and intelligence from the colluding countries have helped sustain the assault that has left Gaza, in her words, “strangled, starved, shattered.”  (more...)

60-plus states complicit in Israeli genocide: Expert briefs UN General Assembly in scathing new report



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