Israel’s “genocidal violence” in Gaza risked spreading to different elements of the occupied Palestinian territory amid a large-scale army operation within the West Bank, an impartial U.N. skilled has warned.
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations particular rapporteur on the rights state of affairs within the Palestinian territories, warned in a press release Monday that Israel’s current intensification of its operations within the West Bank, which is separated from Gaza by Israeli territory, marked “a dangerous escalation.”
“Israel’s genocidal violence risks leaking out of Gaza and into the occupied Palestinian territory as a whole,” she mentioned.
“The writing is on the wall, and we cannot continue to ignore it. There is mounting evidence that no Palestinian is safe under Israel’s unfettered control.”
Albanese, who’s an impartial skilled appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council however who doesn’t communicate on behalf of the United Nations, has repeatedly accused Israel of committing genocide in its warfare in Gaza.
Violence has surged within the West Bank throughout the Gaza warfare triggered by the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion of southern Israel.
Monday’s assertion got here after days of surging violence, with the Ramallah-based Palestinian Health Ministry saying Monday that at the very least 26 Palestinians had been killed since final Wednesday, when Israel launched simultaneous raids throughout the northern West Bank.
Middle Eastern and Western governments in addition to U.N. officers have known as on Israel to finish the large-scale operations within the Palestinian territory, which it has occupied since 1967.
“Apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously, as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement and territorial expansion,” Albanese mentioned.
“The long-standing impunity granted to Israel is enabling the de-Palestinization of the occupied territory, leaving Palestinians at the mercy of the forces pursuing their elimination as a national group,” she added.
She known as on the worldwide group to “do everything it can to immediately end the risk of genocide against the Palestinian people under Israel’s occupation, ensure accountability and ultimately end Israel’s colonization of Palestinian territory.”
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