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Francesca Albanese calls for "suspension of all ties with Israel" until "Gaza genocide" ends
On 28 October 2025, Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, presented her most recent report to the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Issues) of the United Nations General Assembly at its 80th session in New York.
Ms. Albanese was speaking remotely from South Africa.
As in previous sessions, the Committee examined human rights questions, including reports of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council. The Committee heard presentations from Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts, and Chairs of Treaty Bodies and Working Groups as mandated by the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly.
Ceasefire hasn’t stopped Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza: UN expert
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, says Israel continues to kill, starve, maim, and displace the people of Gaza despite the three-week-old truce. “The ceasefire declared on October 11 did not stop the assault on Gaza,” Albanese told Al Jazeera from Cape Town in South Africa. Israel has committed at least 125 violations of the truce, killed nearly 100, and wounded about 350 Palestinians since the US-brokered ceasefire took effect, she noted. “Any person with an inch of common sense has been saying … is this possible that in the middle of a genocide we cheer for this proposal that does not take into account any human rights, international law?” Albanese said of Trump’s Gaza “peace plan”.
