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Hamas praises UN rapporteur for Israel 'open air prison' report
Francesca Albanese's dispatch was warmly received by the terror group, and rejected by Israel
July 13, 2023 10:17
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Francesca Albanese's dispatch was warmly received by the terror group, and rejected by Israel
July 13, 2023 10:17A United Nations human rights specialist who likened living in the Palestinian territories to being in an “open-air prison” has been commended by Hamas for “shedding light on Israeli crimes” in her maiden report to the body’s Human Rights Council.
Francesca Albanese, the UN’s “special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”, claimed in the report that “arbitrary and deliberate ill-treatment is inflicted upon the Palestinians” both inside and outside of detention.
Delivering her report in Geneva, Albanese told delegates: “Under Israeli occupation, generations of Palestinians have endured widespread and systematic arbitrary deprivation of liberty, often for the simplest acts of life and the exercise of fundamental human rights.”
At a briefing for journalists, she reportedly added: “There is no other way to define the regime that Israel has imposed on the Palestinians — which is apartheid by default — other than an open-air prison.”
