US issues sanctions against UN investigator probing abuses in Gaza • FRANCE 24 English
It’s the latest effort by the US to punish critics of the Israeli war on Gaza. The Trump administration is issuing sanctions against an independent investigator tasked with probing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories. Well, for the details, let’s cross live now to Washington. Fraser Jackson. Our correspondent there is standing by for us. Fraser, this comes in the wake of our recent failed campaign to force the UN to remove the special raptor from her post. What more can you tell us? Yeah, well, for now, she is still there. But now, the Trump administration ratcheting up pressure by announcing it is issuing sanctions on Wednesday against the independent investigator tasked with probing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories. Franchesca Albani has been an outspoken critic of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. And now, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying that the US was sanctioning Albani for directly engaging with the International Criminal Court in its efforts to prosecute American or Israeli nationals. He even accused her of being unfit to be a UN special reporter. Well, these sanctions introduced will likely block any assets that Albanesei has here in the United States, as well as preventing her from traveling to the country. It will also likely impact her immediate family. Albanesei, who is an Italian national, has issued a series of letters urging countries to pressure Israel into ending its bombardment of the Gaza Strip and recently issued a report naming several US companies, among those aiding what she described as Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza. Well, Rubio’s post accused Albanesei of anti-semitism and said, quote, “Her campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated. We will always stand by our partners in their right to self-defense.” So, the US here ratcheting up the pressure and ratcheting up another escalation on its critics of anybody who is speaking out against Israel’s war in Gaza.
The Trump administration announced it is issuing sanctions Wednesday against Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, the latest effort by the United States to punish critics of Israel’s 21-month war in Gaza. The State Department’s decision comes after a recent U.S. pressure campaign to force the international body to remove her from her post failed. FRANCE 24’s Fraser Jackson reports from Washington.
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29 comments
signs of end times.. truth become wrong and wrong become truth.
You don't expect favours after siding with the Jihadis.
Have you guys ever think she look like a female version of Jeff Goldblum or just me? 😅
Call it by its true name, and not the USA: The Confederacy. The South has indeed again risen, and it is a diseased corpse.
US Sanctions are a joke, no one should comply with them
US Sanctions are the new Nobel prize. You get threatened with one it means you're on the right path
She not independent she supports HAMAS
What does sanctions mean? Is it expelled from the United States? The United States should close this distorted institution called UN found in its territory, an unnecessary organization, which has an absolute majority of totalitarian countries such as all Arab states, Russia, China North Korea, Iran and more
She is not independent she is dependent on leftist ideology and money
I bet you Starmer will not say anything against this action..The us will not be actually criticised by Starmer
You forgot o
Mention
Her known
Ties to Hamas officials
Self defence is not an excuse for carrying out genocide.
If calling out crimes and the people carrying them out is itself a crime humanity has lost and the psychopaths in leadership roles have won.
Old west
Getting sanctioned by the U.S. is like a medal of honor these days.
Sainthood not sanctions
This woman is nz it just a critic she uses false logic to spread hate
We own you. You couldn’t even function
Freedom of speech, the right to say whatever you want, right? Freedom is earned, not given. And this is how the Palestinians, aka Hamas, want to earn it. The other Arab nations want them at arms length if that doesn't say a lot on its own. I guess as long as they're not messing with their land and politics, right?
Russia and Chinese do same with UN 😀
Nothing new, when you dare to speak the truth, you get sanctioned, sanctions for only talking, no sanctions for any actions being forced upon the p a l e s t i n i a n s??
I'll deal with them; what are they selling?
She is not just unfit, shes crazy. Shes spot on to the terror group.
DF DF DF DF DF DF
Trump's going to get the 'Peace Prize' just like Obama did! That's the truth.
AIPAC paid extra for these sanctions.
Just curious. The report she wrote about war, she somehow managed to forget to mention October 7, which seems to me like quite an omission. Did she mention Kfir Bibas? Or the Bibas family? Did she mention the thousands of rockets fired at Hezbollah before someone dialed their numbers? She seems to be a very unreliable witness.
She’s not an investigator. She’s Hamas mouthpiece!
Will the Elysee call the US and Israeli ambassadors to excoriate them for shredding international law?
Can Lady Liberty come home to Paris?
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