Tags: UN Human Rights Council

UN’s special rapporteur on human rights says Israel is systematically torturing Palestinians

Francesca Albanese says her report, which includes over 300 testimonies, ‘examines Israel’s systematic use of torture against Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territory since October 7, 2023.’ Though appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, special rapporteurs are independent experts and do not speak on behalf of the UN.

Israel has declared war on peacekeeping; Washington joins Israel in war on truth – Day 370

Israel is a threat to critically ill children in Gaza, to Palestinian and American journalists, to peacekeepers, to truth itself, and to human rights worldwide

Ha’aretz has published the extremely disturbing video evidence that the UN Human Rights Council screened on Feb. 28, 2019 of Israeli forces shooting unarmed Gaza protesters. The report concluded that nations should carry out their duty to arrest persons alleged to have committed, or who ordered to have committed, the international crimes described in the present report…