00:00U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on Wednesday, announced Washington was sanctioning the United
00:07Nations Special Expert on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who has been very critical of
00:13U.S. ally Israel's war in Gaza.
00:16Rubio posted on X that Francesca Albanese's campaign of political and economic warfare
00:22against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated.
00:26Albanese, an Italian lawyer and academic, has called on states at the U.N. Human Rights
00:31Council to impose an arms embargo and cut off trade and financial ties with Israel while
00:37accusing the U.S. ally of waging a genocidal campaign in Gaza.
00:42The situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is apocalyptic.
00:47In Gaza, people continue to endure suffering beyond imagination.
00:52Israel is responsible for one of the cruelest genocides in modern history.
00:56Official figures count over 200,000 killed or injured.
01:01Leading health experts estimate that true toll is far higher.
01:06As the cost to the Palestinian people grows, Israel has dismantled the last function of
01:11the U.N. in Gaza, humanitarian aid.
01:13Its so-called Gaza humanitarian foundation is nothing else than a death trap engineered to
01:20kill or force the flight of a starved, bombarded, emaciated population marked for elimination.
01:26As I conclude, let me say, Member States must impose a full arms embargo on Israel, suspend
01:32all trade agreements and investment relations, and enforce accountability, ensuring that corporate
01:38entities face legal consequences for their involvement in serious violations of international law.
01:44And corporate entities must urgently cease all business activities and terminate relationships directly linked,
01:51contributing to and causing human rights violations and international crimes against the Palestinian people.
01:57Albanese also released a damning report denouncing companies, she said,
02:01profited from the Israeli economy of illegal occupation, apartheid, and now genocide in the occupied Palestinian territories.
02:11The 40 entities named in my report, alongside their parents, subsidiary, licensees, and franchisees,
02:18are just the tip of the iceberg, illustrative of this system that entangles many, many more.
02:23What I exposed is not a list, it is a system, and it is to be addressed.
02:30Now, my expectation is that the OHCHR database, the Working Group on Business and Human Rights,
02:37and lawyers, investigative journalists, and prosecutors globally will take this framework
02:42and secure what states have failed to achieve, accountability.
02:47And we must reverse the tide.
02:49While not responding directly to Rubio's announcement, Albanese posted on X that she stands firmly and convincingly
02:57on the side of justice.
02:59She also references the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court,
03:04and defines crimes like genocide and apartheid.
03:07So, if I do not understand that partly, when you are Hebdo's disagreement,
03:11you will be able to stabilize the generation of the Russian states and the Republic of the United States.
03:16And that you will be able to assume that there is an interesting conversation with you about the world for about whether you don't know or not,
03:21which is the country of the United States, the Republic of the United States has failed to be able to find a lot more.
03:27So, the importance of that there is the European nation to protect people from the United States.
03:30And it is very important that the media and other countries have not changed that nature and the United States has won the power of the world.
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