The report, titled "Genocide as Colonial Erasure," was presented to the UN General Assembly amid rising humanitarian concerns and escalated conflict in Gaza and the West Bank.
Albanese's report states that recent actions in Gaza represent an "intentional, systematic, state-organized forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians," which the rapporteur attributes to a broader agenda aimed at eliminating the Palestinian presence.
"The violence that Israel has unleashed against the Palestinians post-7 October is not happening in a vacuum but is part of a long-term ... trajectory," the report says, noting the "irreparable prejudice to the very existence of the Palestinian people" in the region.
Based on international law and treaties, including the Genocide Convention, the report highlights that the magnitude and coordination of the attacks on Palestinian people across the occupied territories warrant scrutiny.
Albanese argues that the observed patterns align with acts described in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Her office has used testimonies from displaced persons, legal analysis, and open-source information to substantiate these allegations.
The rapporteur's team was denied access to the occupied territories, a restriction she says "constitutes obstruction of justice" under international law.
Thirteen months of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza has destroyed most homes in the strip and displaced 90 percent of the population.
A deadly Israeli blockade on water, food, and medicine has left most of the 2.2 million population on the brink of starvation.
Israel has also destroyed most hospitals and medical facilities in Gaza, leaving the wounded and sick without urgent medical care.
Israel has also destroyed most schools and universities schools, leaving hundreds of thousands of students without access to education.
In February, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN's highest court, ruled in a case brought before it by South Africa that the Israel war on Gaza may fit the definition of genocide against a people.
A Palestinian inspects the damage after an overnight Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia the northern Gaza Strip. AFP
The Israeli war on Gaza has killed over 43,000 people and wounded more than 100,000, most of them women and children.
The UN report also cites actions in the West Bank, where Israeli forces have escalated the displacement and violence against Palestinian communities, following the largest seizure of West Bank land in over three decades last July.
It said high-ranking Israeli officials who have purportedly expressed intentions to remove Palestinians from specific areas, thereby facilitating Israeli settlement expansion.
"The declared unlawfulness of the occupation vitiates claims of purported self-defence," states the report, referencing a 2024 Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ruled the Israeli presence in the Palestinian territories illegal.
In this file photo, a blast from an Israeli airstrike on a building in Gaza City throws dust and debris. AP
Israeli troops have killed nearly 700 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of a crackdown on the occupied territories after 7 October 2023.
Israel has also detained more than 11,000 Palestinians from across the West Bank.
In June, in a historic ruling, the ICJ affirmed that the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories was unlawful.
In May, the ICJ issued a provisional order in a 13-2 vote that Israel must immediately halt its military offensive and any other action in Rafah and open the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt to allow the entry of humanitarian aid to 2.2 million Palestinians who are facing a disastrous situation.
Again and Again!
Albanese has been an outspoken critic of the Israeli war on Gaza, describing Israeli indiscriminate killing of Palestinians as intent to commit genocide.
In March, the UN human rights expert submitted a report to the UN titled Anatomy of a Genocide which recommended that UN members “immediately implement an arms embargo and sanctions on Israel."
In her report, she argued there were “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israel was carrying out three of the five acts defined as genocide: killing Palestinians, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, and “deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction” of the population in whole or in part.
Later, in an interview with Ahram Online, she noted: "Israel is clearly committing genocide against the Palestinians in one neighbourhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, and one 'safe zone' at the time. It is carrying out such strikes against Palestinians using American and European weapons, amid the indifference of all civilized nations."
Her condemnation of the Israeli war and call for an arms embargo on Israel has prompted Israel to deny her access to the occupied territories earlier this year.
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