{"id":12380,"date":"2023-10-09T10:51:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T10:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=12380"},"modified":"2023-10-09T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T10:51:42","slug":"necessary-to-stand-with-both-israelis-palestinians-un-rapporteur-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/necessary-to-stand-with-both-israelis-palestinians-un-rapporteur-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Necessary\u2019 to stand with both Israelis, Palestinians, UN rapporteur says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has warned of a \u201cdangerous\u201d narrative about the Israel-Hamas conflict<\/a> that ignores the history of violence against Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At least 1,100 people have been killed since Hamas<\/a>, the Palestinian group that controls the blockaded Gaza Strip, launched an assault on Israeli towns on Saturday and took hundreds of people hostage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel retaliated by declaring a state of war<\/a> and pounding densely-populated Gaza, killing hundreds of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albanese said the international community should be \u201cwise and even-handed\u201d when tackling the result of \u201cdecades of oppression imposed on the Palestinians, brutalisation, structural violence of course punctuated also by eruptive violence\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike many, I am totally petrified by what is happening. I am totally shocked and appalled by the violence,\u201d Albanese told Al Jazeera on Sunday evening from Tunisia\u2019s capital Tunis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut before anything else, I am horrified by the narrative, by the discourse, because it is possible, and necessary, to stand both with the Palestinians and the Israelis without resorting to ethical relativism, to selective outrage or worse, calls for violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Italian human rights lawyer, who became the first woman to hold the position upon her appointment in May 2022, said politicians and policymakers should prioritise \u201crestoring legality and accountability, using diplomacy and peace as conflict resolution methods, rather than advocating for more violence or standing with one side or another.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have been in this role for 16 months now and \u2026 since the very beginning, I saw violence mounting against defenceless Palestinians. And this is something that has been ongoing for six decades now,\u201d Albanese said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albanese has previously described Israel as treating<\/a> occupied Palestinian territory as an outdoor prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The special rapporteur also called on governments not to recognise or support illegal Israeli settlements and to hold those responsible for such settlements accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albanese told Al Jazeera that many Israelis say that what is happening now needs to be put in the context of decades of oppression imposed on the Palestinians, brutalisation, and structural violence punctuated by eruptive violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel has repeatedly rejected UN criticism of conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan accused Hamas of war crimes, promising that it was time to \u201cobliterate Hamas terror infrastructure\u201d while calling the group \u201csavages\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, Palestinian UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour told reporters before a Security Council meeting that the Israeli \u201cblockade and assaults\u201d did not accomplish anything, adding that \u201cno one should say or do anything to encourage\u201d Israel to take the path of violence that punishes the entire Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is very clear what lies ahead,\u201d Albanese said. \u201cHuman rights organisations have said it all along that continuing to oppress a population with total impunity would lead to a catastrophe, and this is what is happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I am sorry but the responsibility for what is happening is also on the international community which has one opportunity now to be wise and be even-handed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe settler colonial occupation, the militarised settler colonial occupation that Israel maintains and trapped both people. Both of them are incredibly tied in the same destiny and one cannot do without the other,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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