The Israeli mission in Geneva stated that Francesca Albanese’s “attitude, including defending and justifying Hamas’s actions, is a constant stain on the United Nations.”
(September 17, 2024 / JNS) Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinian rights who has a long history of antisemitic statements, said during a press conference on Monday that the Jewish state is accused of six kinds of offenses in Gaza.
Israel’s efforts to root out the Hamas terror organization in the Strip, according to Albanese, have led to allegations of “domicide, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, cultural genocide and more recently ecocide,” she said, of the destruction of homes, cities and education, respectively.
“Medicide” typically refers to physician-assisted suicide, but Albanese appeared to mean the destruction of medicine. “Ecocide” refers to attacks on the environment.