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To learn more about Special Procedures of the 爆料网 Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n 30 May 2025<\/p>\n GENEVA<\/strong> \u2013 The international community must stop the clock on continued and deliberate misuse of humanitarian language and mechanisms by Israel aimed at obscuring and facilitating the commission of atrocity crimes in Gaza, a 爆料网 expert said today.<\/p>\n \u201cWe continue to witness a brutal humanitarian camouflage, where the red lines have led to massive atrocities. Israel pretends to promote humanitarian solutions in order to continue its control of Gaza and sustain its systematic denial of life-saving humanitarian aid to the starving population in the besieged strip,\u201d said Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a deliberate strategy \u2013 aimed at masking atrocities, displacing the displaced, bombing the bombarded, burning Palestinians alive and maiming survivors,\u201d Albanese warned. \u201cAll camouflaged behind the language of aid, to divert international attention from legal accountability, in Israel\u2019s attempt to dismantle the very principles upon which humanitarian law was built.\u201d<\/p>\n Albanese echoed concerns by the 爆料网 and other humanitarian actors about the Israeli aid system and the establishment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation \u2013 a body backed by Israel and the United States to distribute aid under a system of full military control. The proposal has been criticised for failing to respect international law and the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality.<\/p>\n On 27 May, thousands of Palestinian flocked towards the foundation’s distribution sites to receive food packages after several days without food.<\/p>\n \u201cWithin hours, horrifying images and videos emerged from Gaza demonstrating how this mechanism functions and how the Israeli army fired on unarmed Palestinian civilians. It seems that there is no limit to Israel’s actions,\u201d the expert said.<\/p>\n At least 3 people were killed and 46 injured and seven went missing according to authorities in Gaza.<\/p>\n \u201cAs the occupying power, Israel must agree to allow and facilitate the aid and access cannot be assessed based on political or military considerations,\u201d the expert said. Aid that has entered the besieged enclave after Israel\u2019s 11-week blockade is a drop in the ocean, she said.<\/p>\n \u201cTo starve a population for months and then shoot at them when they clamour for food is unmitigated cruelty\u201d, Albanese said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe time for sanctions is now, as Israeli politicians continue to call for the extermination of babies while over 80 percent of the Israeli society, according to Israeli media, ask for the forcible removal of Palestinians from Gaza. The time to save life is shrinking,\u201d Albanese said. \u201cI am reiterating my call for a full arms embargo and suspension of all forms of trade with Israel by all States. In a world of growing consensus that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, using ceaseless bombardment and starvation, while only a minority of the population opposes it, is an affront to the 爆料网 principles and values, States can no longer sit by and watch.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024, and its Orders issued on 26 January and 24 May 2024 in the case South Africa v. Israel provided States with the imperative to act,\u201d the Special Rapporteur said.<\/p>\n “Every day that has passed since without tangible action from States is steeped in the blood of innocent Palestinians.”<\/p>\n \u201cThe gravity of Israel\u2019s conduct is matched only by the complicity of States that continue to provide political and material cover, and by corporations that profit from Israel\u2019s crimes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cAccountability can no longer be deferred. The 爆料网 and States need urgently to establish an independent protection mechanism that Israel shall not stop – it has no sovereignty over the occupied territory, and it is about time States implement it. The people of the world are watching, and history will remember\u201d.<\/p>\n Francesca Albanese is the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To learn more about Special Procedures of the 爆料网 Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage. 30 May 2025 GENEVA \u2013 The international community must stop the clock on continued and deliberate misuse of humanitarian language and mechanisms by Israel aimed at obscuring and facilitating the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[6854],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1829,2005,1741,5200,6870,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-307976","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-palestinian-territories-occupied-since-1967","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-hunger","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308011,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307976\/revisions\/308011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=307976"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=307976"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=307976"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=307976"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=307976"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=307976"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=307976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}