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By World Israel News Staff
A high-profile United Nations official and outspoken critic of Israel expressed outrage last week over Israel’s decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), deeming the move “extremely serious.”
United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese has a long history of remarks indicating a deep bias against Jews and Israel.
In a recent interview with Reuters, Albanese blasted Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s statement about Israel’s reasons for withdrawing from the council, in which he noted a disproportionate number of resolutions condemning Israel by the body.
Sa’ar’s statements about the council’s unrelenting persecution oft Israel “shows the hubris and the lack of realization of what they [Israel] have done,” Albanese claimed to Reuters.
She said that by withdrawing from the body, Israel is “insist[ing] in self-righteousness, that they have nothing to be held accountable for, and they are proving it to the entire international community.”
Referring to ongoing counter-terror operations being carried out in Jenin and other hotbeds of Islamic extremism in northern Samaria, Albanese said she was “concerned” that the Israeli “genocide” was expanding.
“The north [of Samaria] is being attacked primarily by soldiers. The south has been attacked primarily by [Israeli] settlers, and you can see this as an assault on the Palestinian people as a whole,” Albanese told Reuters.
Albanese did not acknowledge that the populations of both Gaza and Palestinian Authority-controlled enclaves in Judea and Samaria have grown since October 7th, which disproves her allegation of genocide against the Palestinian.
Albanese slammed a proposal by President Donald Trump for the U.S. to assume control of rebuilding Gaza, which would include the temporary resettlement of Gazan civilians in other countries.
She blamed the U.S. president for “destroying the basic principles of respect for human rights across a huge spectrum, not just in Palestine,” adding that the world has “moved further towards the abyss.”
Albanese said she was baffled by the relatively lowkey European pushback to the outline.
“I’m surprised that European states are staying silent instead of rising up and saying, ‘This is utter nonsense, and we will not tolerate this’,” she said.
