Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, accused Israel of committing one of the most heinous acts of genocide in modern history, holding the international community responsible for failing to stop the massacres that have been ongoing in the Gaza Strip for months.

In her address to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday, Albanese said that what is happening in Gaza exceeds all definitions of a humanitarian catastrophe, describing the territory as a "systematic death trap" aimed at emptying the land of its population through killing, starvation, and mass displacement.

Albanese called on the United Nations and member states to impose a total ban on arms exports to Israel, and to suspend trade agreements and investment partnerships with it. She emphasized that maintaining economic relations in the face of genocide amounts to international complicity in the violations.

Similarly, Amnesty International stated that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war against civilians in Gaza, calling for the immediate lifting of the blockade, an end to the genocide, and the imposition of sanctions on Israeli officials involved in starvation policies and mass targeting.

Previously, Albanese revealed the involvement of more than 60 international companies in supporting Israeli military operations—either by supplying weapons and equipment or by providing surveillance tools and technologies used in the assault on Gaza and in settlements in the West Bank.

She named prominent companies including:
Lockheed Martin, Leonardo, Caterpillar, HD Hyundai, as well as tech giants Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Albanese affirmed that these companies are financially linked to the apartheid and militarization system led by Israel. She noted that her report was based on more than 200 official communications submitted by states, human rights organizations, academics, and even some of the companies themselves.

The UN rapporteur explicitly called for holding the CEOs of those companies accountable before international justice, asserting that “profit” is the main driver behind the continued Israeli aggression on Gaza, pointing to the existence of a global network of interests that fuels and benefits from the violations.

In a predictable response, both Israel and the United States rejected the report, describing it as a “distortion of facts” and an “overreach” of the rapporteur’s mandate.

Israel’s mission in Geneva called for the report’s recommendations to be ignored, while the U.S. mission to the UN urged the Secretary-General to condemn the report and seek Albanese’s removal from her position.

With every report revealing aspects of the bloody reality in Gaza, the United States' contempt for the international justice system becomes more evident. Not only does Washington reject condemnation, but it also seeks to punish any independent voice that dares to describe the situation truthfully.

From pressure on UN staff to public smear campaigns against UN rapporteurs, the United States continues a policy of soft intimidation aimed at erasing the human rights narrative in favor of the Israeli version of events.

Thus, defending international law becomes a punishable offense, while brutality is rewarded with weapons and support—and victims are held accountable for resisting genocide.