File Photo: UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights Situation in the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese. AFP
"Far too many states continue to look away, normalise the suffering and even profit from it," the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, told reporters in Geneva.
"Arms trade and diplomatic engagement with Israel continue unabated," she said.
"This is not just morally wrong, this is unlawful," she insisted, demanding "accountability (for) the very people who have been giving orders to continue trade and arms transfers toward Israel".
Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has killed nearly 65,000 people and injured more than 140,000 others, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's health ministry.
But Albanese on Monday suggested the true number could be 10 times that.
In an unprecedented move, Washington slapped sanctions on Albanese in July, calling her work "biased and malicious".
Albanese reiterated that the US sanctions against her, alongside sanctions against International Criminal Court judges, were "unacceptable".
She highlighted that the United States had for decades backed the Israeli government "militarily, politically, diplomatically, strategically, discursively".
But under the current administration of President Donald Trump, she cautioned that support had "passed the Rubicon".
Albanese warned that history would not look kindly on the United States or other countries that continue to provide support for Israel amid its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
"Not that this is the first genocide that has been known," she said, pointing to the Holocaust, the Bosnia genocide and the Rwanda genocide as events that "were also known to the people of the time".
Albanese added that "this genocide has something different, is openly incited, cynically denied and relentlessly supported, armed and weaponised, while those who oppose it are silenced, beaten, criminalised and smeared".
"This is the shame of our time."
The rapporteur said she had "asked prime ministers, presidents, foreign ministers, so-called world leaders" the same question: "How do you sleep? When will you act?"
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