Monday, October 27, 2025

From Cape Town’s Pulpit, Albanese Calls for a Moral Front against Genocide in Gaza

 

Francesca Albanese UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine Territories Gaza genocide Cape Town South Africa interfaith advocacy moral front

A guest of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Albanese said that “intervening for Palestine is not an act of charity,” but one of “united struggles.”

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has said that the “brutality and inhumanity” unleashed against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip as well as the occupied Palestinian territories, is a “collective crime that has been enabled exactly because no one has respected the law.”

Addressing a packed interfaith gathering in Cape Town on Sunday, Albanese emphasized that “intervening for Palestine is not an act of charity,” but one of “united struggles.”

“No one has done what was supposed to do; cutting ties with Israel, no more weapons, no buying weapons, no more diamonds, no more juice, no more fruits, nothing. You cut economic trade, you cut everything to Israel. You cut (the) partnership,” she stressed.

Nationals who have fought in the Israeli army should be “considered suspect” and investigated, she said, noting that “If there is evidence that they have committed crimes, they have to be prosecuted … and convicted.”  (more...)

From Cape Town’s Pulpit, Albanese Calls for a Moral Front against Genocide in Gaza



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