Key facts
- UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese urged an immediate global arms embargo on Israel.
- Albanese also called for an immediate halt to trade and investment ties with Israel.
- She cited Israel's actions in the occupied Palestinian territories as "one of the cruellest genocides in modern history."
- Albanese highlighted the role of corporate entities in facilitating settlement expansion.
- Israel's diplomatic mission in Geneva dismissed the report as "legally groundless."
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, has renewed her demand for governments to halt trade with Israel and stop supplying it with weapons.
Albanese stated that states should have acted when others first warned them about Israel’s conduct, responding to a former Israeli ambassador to France who urged the public to recognize that there are “genocidaires” in the Israeli government. She emphasized that it is "never too late" for countries to intervene, urging them to "Cut trade with Israel now. Arms embargo now."