Geneva – SABA:
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, affirmed on Thursday that “Israel is responsible for one of the cruelest acts of genocide in modern history.”
This came in her report titled “From Occupation Economy to Genocidal Economy,” which she presented at the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva. The report explores the economic dimensions of the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian people over the past 22 months.
According to the Palestinian Safa News Agency, Albanese said that the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories resembles “Doomsday.”
She explained that the report outlines the economic mechanisms that enable the Israeli entity to displace Palestinians through destruction, isolation, and surveillance.
Albanese described the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Zone” as nothing more than a “death trap” designed either to kill or force starving residents to flee.
She emphasized that Gaza’s residents continue to endure indescribable suffering, with over 200,000 Palestinians killed or injured, according to official figures.
She also noted that Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are undergoing “the largest forced displacement” since 1967, amid violence by armed settlers, and the daily suffocation of life by over 900 checkpoints and barriers.
She reported that nearly 1,000 people have been killed, 10,000 injured, another 10,000 detained, and many tortured.
Meanwhile, during the same period, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange surged by 213% in dollar terms since October 2023, with a total increase of $125.7 billion.
Albanese stressed that Israel has exploited the genocide as an “opportunity” to test new weapons, surveillance tools, and war technologies such as drones.
She highlighted that the company Elbit Systems received an Innovation Award from Israel’s Ministry of Defense, while Lockheed Martin and a global network of 1,650 companies benefited from Israel’s use of F-35 fighter jets in “Beast Mode”—carrying up to 22,000 kilograms of munitions, four times the payload of their stealth configuration.
She asserted that many weapons manufacturers have posted record profits through arming the Israeli entity, stressing that every country bears a responsibility to disengage entirely from this “genocidal economy” and cut ties with it.
Backed by U.S. and European support, the Israeli military has continued committing acts of genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, resulting in the martyrdom of 57,130 Palestinian civilians—mostly children and women—and the injury of 135,173 others, as of Thursday. These numbers are not final, as thousands remain trapped under rubble or on roadsides inaccessible to ambulance and rescue teams.
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