An independent and explicit international investigator of Israel’s policies in Gaza says that the recent sanctions imposed by the administration of US President Donald Trump will have serious effects on her life and work.
Furnnesca Albanzee, the United Nations Special Representative in the West Bank and Gaza, is a member of a group of experts chosen by the United Nations Human Rights Council and consisting of 47 members in Geneva.
It is costing to investigate human rights violations in the Palestinian territories, and it was frank about what it described as a “genocide” by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza.
Both Israel and the United States, which provides military support for its close ally, denied this accusation. Washington denounced what it described as a “campaign of political and economic war” against the United States and Israel, and earlier this month, sanctions were imposed on Albanizi, in the wake of a failed US pressure campaign to force the international body to dismiss it from its position.
“It is very dangerous to be on the list of people who are under sanctions by the United States,” Albanizi told the Associated Press in Rome, adding that individuals who have been imposed on sanctions cannot make financial transactions or obtain credit cards with any American bank.
“When the sanctions are used in a political manner, they are harmful and dangerous,” she added.
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