Gaza war: UN rights expert accuses Israel of acts of genocide - BBC News

Francesca Albanese says Israel seeks to destroy Palestinians, in a report Israel calls "outrageous".

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage source, ReutersImage caption, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 32,000 Palestinians have been killedBy Imogen FoulkesBBC News, GenevaA UN human rights expert says she believes Israel has committed "acts of genocide" in Gaza.

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, presented her report to UN member states in Geneva on Tuesday.

But Israel has already dismissed her findings.

This comes amid growing international pressure on Israel to stop the war or to do much more to protect civilians.

Ms Albanese concluded that "there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide against Palestinians as a group in Gaza has been met".

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