The UN Rapporteur for Palestine, after Washington’s sanctions: “USA wants to intimidate me with mafia methods”
The UN Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has no intention of “shutting up the genocide in Gaza”, regardless of the USA desires to intimidate her “with methods that remind those of the mafia” after the sanctions that he has imposed and that in his judgment are “an unfortunate response” to his newest report.
“They want to intimidate me and anyone who tries to tell the truth about the genocide in progress in Gaza, using methods that remind those who use the mafia. But they will not get it, I will continue doing my job with a high head, demanding the intervention of the International Criminal Court (TPI),” the Italian newspaper tells this Friday Republic.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, “must be tried in The Hague,” says the Italian jurist, who in his newest report factors to 45 personal firms that receive “benefits at the expense of the destruction of innocent lives” in Gaza, together with the American Google, Microsoft, Amazon and IBM. ”The conflict doesn’t stop for the territorial ambitions of Israel, supported by firms of armament, surveillance, expertise, synthetic intelligence, that are being enriched.
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, mentioned that Albanese is “incapacitated” to train as a particular rapporteur as a result of “she has expressed a shameless anti -Semitism, support for terrorism and an open contempt for the US, Israel and the West” when saying the sanctions, which the UN has described as “dangerous precedent” and worldwide amnesty of “shameful and vindictive.”
In Italy, a petition on-line In help of the rapporteur she has obtained 15,000 signatures in simply two hours, in line with the promoters, who ask that the diplomatic safety of the UN Rapporteur be assured and her candidacy for the Nobel Peace is formally offered.
“I have written six reports for the UN, always referring to the need to investigate the crimes committed, such as arbitrary detention, the treatment of minors, the genocide, asking that the TPI determines the responsibilities. But the US at this time is an allergic country to justice, so imposes sanctions against the court, or against anyone who tries to apply the law, using reminiscent intimidating techniques of Mafia, ”he explains.
In his opinion, it’s clear that “it is the economic and political power that tries to silence who criticizes it, after ridiculing and defame it. I denounce this system, which only works if people let themselves be intimidated and divided.”
Albanese expects “the involvement” of the TPI and worldwide establishments “although the conditions are not the propitious” as a result of “the sectors involved, such as military industry, high finance and technology, are too powerful for national judicial systems.”
On how the sanctions will have an effect on her, the rapporteur says: “At a psychological level, none. At a practical level, my life will clearly complicate me, but I am a privileged Western, technically protected by the UN diplomatic immunity, while people in Gaza die of hunger, misery or under the bombs” and keep in mind that within the strip “60,000 individuals have been killed. (EFE)
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