The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, expressed her regret and ‘condemnation for her inability to conduct a field visit to the Gaza Strip’ after Israel rejected her visit. While Albanese is on a regional tour that includes Jordan and Egypt, the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, welcomed her at the General Secretariat headquarters on 21 April. The meeting, attended by Egypt’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Sameh Shoukry, was organized to discuss the humanitarian situation in Gaza in light of the months-long Israeli crimes against Palestinians, as well as Israeli practices and policies in occupied Palestine. Israel’s decline of Albanese’s request to visit the Gaza Strip comes after she received criticism for her ‘anti-semitic’ report. The report, ‘Anatomy of a Genocide,’ is a dialogue with the UN Member States. “There are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide…has been met,” she stated in the report. “For over 76 years, this process has oppressed the Palestinians as a people in every way imaginable, crushing their inalienable right to self-determination demographically, economically, territorially, culturally and politically.” …
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