The Special Rapporteur to the United Nations, Francesca Albanese, has said that Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories cannot be justified by any claim of self-defense.
According to Jerusalem Post, Albanese made the above claim via social media on Friday, 30th of August, 2024.
The above claim by Albanese allegedly came about a day before two attempted terrorist attacks wounded three Israelis in Gush Etzion in the West Bank.
Albanese wrote that, “Israel claims that what it is doing in the West Bank is justified under the law of self-defense. This claim has no validity. As an ongoing unlawful use of force, Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories cannot be justified by any claim of self-defense.”
In continuation, she also stated that, “Israel’s perversion of the law of self-defense must be recognized for what it is: a brazen attempt to provide imprimatur of ‘legality’ to the maintenance of its unlawful aggression against the territorial integrity and political independence of the State of Palestine.”
She proceeded to also say, “If Israel truly wants to achieve its claimed security, the best and most obvious way to do that would be to cease its colonization of another people’s land, withdraw from all of it, and make appropriate reparations for the damage caused +as requested by the ICJ), while being sure to apologise to its victims on the way out.”
The United Nations Special Rapporteur had said in a message posted a day earlier that, “The world’s failure with Bosnians and Tutsis, despite promises made after the Holocaust to prevent such atrocities.”….Vïêw–Môrê