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STORY: UN / HUMAN RIGHTS IN OPT
TRT: 04:18
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters
30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory:
“The genocidal violence that I have described in my first report, has expanded and metastasized in other parts of the occupied Palestinian territory.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory:
“How do you explain the 700, over 700, Palestinians who have been killed in in the West Bank, including 170 children. And how do you explain the fact that the Palestinians from the West Bank have been exposed to the same practices and abuses, often rape, among other forms of torture, than those in Gaza? If there was no Hamas military action or presence in the West Bank? Not that the first justified what Israel has done in Gaza.”
6. Wide shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory:
“Impunity that has been granted to Israel has allowed it to become a serial violator of international law.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory:
“It's not that the United States is simply an observer. The United States is being an enabler in what Israel has been doing. So, of course, they have a conflict of interest in this, in, let's say, orchestrating attacks against anyone who criticizes Israel.”
11. Wide shot, press briefing room
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory:
“Then to destroy people is the determination to reduce the capacity of a group to survive, leading to destruction. And intent, thus means that having the intent means that you don't even need to have the completion of the design, of the genocidal design - (it) is what you do to the people.”
13. Med shot, photographer
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory:
“The fact that every now and then the starvation campaign was interrupted by some trucks allowed in. Oh, so, Israel is not really starving the Palestinians? I've seen the vaccination, the polio vaccination campaign when it started, it was also attacked, it had to be interrupted. How did we get there? Is it a small act of basic humanity going to hide, obscure and mute what has been done for the past twelve months? I believe it’s not.”
15. Med shot, journalist
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory:
“That is part of the colonial, what I call, the colonial erasure. The fact that Israel, in the pursuit of realizing Greater Israel, is attempting to reduce physically or spiritually, being as a collective, the presence of Palestinian identity in the oPt, which means many of whom are refugees. 75 percent for example, of the people in Gaza, they're not even from Gaza. They're from modern day Israel. And therefore, their presence is a continuous reminder for Israel of what I call its original sin. In fact, that its creation, doesn't matter the justification behind it, I'm not questioning this from a Jewish people point of view, but the creation of the State of Israel came at a huge price for Palestinians."
17. Wide shot, journalists
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory:
“There has been a relentless attack on UNRWA seen as a symbol of Palestinianness.”
19. Wide shot, journalists
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory:
“UNRWA is a subsidiary body of the General Assembly. It's not just the UN agency, whatever, or UN program it is being established by General Assembly and only the General Assembly can decide the future of UNRWA.”
21. Wide shot, end of press briefing
Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory said, “the genocidal violence” has expanded and “metastasized in other parts of the oPt.”
Briefing reporters in New York City today (30 Oct) she questioned, “How do you explain the 700, over 700, Palestinians who have been killed in the West Bank, including 170 children?”
Albanese further said, “And how do you explain the fact that the Palestinians from the West Bank have been exposed to the same practices and abuses, often rape, among other forms of torture, than those in Gaza? If there was no Hamas military action or presence in the West Bank? Not that the first justified what Israel has done in Gaza.”
According to Albanese, “Impunity that has been granted to Israel has allowed it to become a serial violator of international law.” She argued that the United States has been “an enabler” in Israel’s actions, suggesting it has “a conflict of interest… in orchestrating attacks against anyone who criticizes Israel.”
Albanese further pointed to what she called a “colonial erasure” in efforts to diminish Palestinian identity in the oPt, noting that “75 percent, for example, of the people in Gaza, they’re not even from Gaza. They’re from modern-day Israel.” She said these actions serve as a “reminder… of its original sin” in the creation of the Israeli state.
Additionally, she condemned attacks on UNRWA, describing it as a “symbol of Palestinianness,” and emphasized that UNRWA’s fate rests solely with the General Assembly, noting that “only the General Assembly can decide the future of UNRWA.”
Special Rapporteurs are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council’s independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent of any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity.
