The United Nations Special Rapporteur concerned with the human rights status in the West Bank and Gaza, Francesca Albanizi, known for its public criticism of Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip, said that the recent sanctions imposed by the administration of US President Donald Trump will have serious effects on her life and work.
Francesca Albanizi holds the position of the United Nations Special Resolution on the West Bank of Human Rights and Gaza, and is one of the group of experts chosen by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, consisting of 47 countries.
According to the “German News Agency”, Albanizi is in charge of investigating human rights violations in the Palestinian territories, and it expressed its positions frankly, as it described what Israel is doing in Gaza as “genocide” against the Palestinians.
Both Israel and the United States, which provides military support for its close ally, denied these accusations strongly.
Washington condemned what it described as a “political and economic war campaign” against the United States and Israel, and earlier this month imposed sanctions on Albanese, after a failed US pressure campaign to force the international body to isolate it from its position.
“It is very dangerous for one to be on the list of persons subject to sanctions by the United States,” Albanizi told the Associated Press in Rome, adding that individuals whom Washington imposes sanctions cannot make financial transactions or use credit cards in any American bank.
She emphasized that the sanctions when they are used for “political purposes, are harmful and dangerous.”
“My daughter is American, and I was living in the United States and I have some assets there, so this will surely harm me,” Albanizi added.
She added: «What can I do? I have done everything I have done with a good intention, and I am sure that my commitment to achieve justice is more important than any personal interests. ”
Albanizi’s sanctions did not deter its work, nor on its positions, as it published in July a new report focused on what it described as “the economy based on the extermination of Israel” in the Palestinian territories.
She said: “There is a complete system that enabled the Israeli occupation to continue, and later also turned into an economy based on extermination.”
At the end of her report, Albranzi called for sanctions against Israel, and the prosecution of “engineers and perpetrators of this genocide and its beneficiaries.”
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