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In March 2024, Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories, denounced genocide in Gaza. Following in her footsteps, this documentary plunges into the heart of the UN’s crisis, confronted by its inability to prevent the massacre of civilians.
The UN was newly created when the Partition Plan for Palestine was decided in 1947. Will the organisation collapse over the Palestine issue?
The UN was newly created when the Partition Plan for Palestine was decided in 1947. Will the organisation collapse over the Palestine issue?
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00:00:00Your Excellency, Your Majesties, Your Highnesses, Excellencies, we meet in the heart of a region
00:00:15that is reeling in pain at one step from the precipice.
00:00:27The Middle East is in trouble.
00:00:30On the 7th of October, 2023, the war crimes perpetrated by Hamas cast horror upon the world.
00:00:371,216 Israelis massacred and 251 hostages taken.
00:00:43What followed was beyond imagination and simple retaliation. In three days, 3,000 tons of bombs,
00:01:05as many as in the bombing of Dresden in World War II, hit Gaza, one of the world's most populated areas.
00:01:13In a month, the equivalent of two Hiroshima's. In one year, six.
00:01:18And those abhorrent attacks can never justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.
00:01:27The UN alerts. Secretary General Antonio Guterres states that no one is above humanitarian law.
00:01:34While the Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, warns of the risk of ethnic cleansing,
00:01:41Israel, Israel and its western allies, expressed their anger.
00:01:45You are shredding the UN Charter with your own hands.
00:01:52Yes, yes, that's what you're doing. Shredding the UN Charter.
00:01:58Shame on you.
00:01:59In this storm, what can a relic of World War II and of the never-again ethos achieve, beyond its futile protests of principle?
00:02:14Can the UN act as a weak bulwark against political and humanitarian collapse?
00:02:20Against the failure of disunited western nations?
00:02:24Just for the benefit of your audience,
00:02:50because I don't want to assume that everyone knows what a Special Rapporteur of the United Nations is.
00:02:55I'm like an ambassador of the United Nations that has been asked.
00:02:59So now I'm not an official of the United Nations in stricto senso,
00:03:03in the sense that the United Nations have asked me to serve pro bono
00:03:08to document and report violations of international law taking place in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem,
00:03:14and report to the Human Rights Council and the General Assemblies.
00:03:17Has an ambassador, as it were, to or an ambassador for the occupied territories?
00:03:22And has that changed during the time you've been doing the job?
00:03:25So it's not the ambassador of a country, of course, but it's a voice of international law.
00:03:30Voilà.
00:03:30I met Francesca Albanese in spring of 2024 in Tunis, where she lives.
00:03:37Named in 2022 by the UN Human Rights Committee,
00:03:40she is the first woman in this post for her deep knowledge of Palestinian territories
00:03:45and her ability to mobilize public opinion.
00:03:49Her report, Anatomy of a Genocide, confirmed genocide for the first time.
00:04:23I think that Europe has defeated a lot of Europeans today, for what's happening in Palestine.
00:04:35And...
00:04:35It was already defeated a lot before, but there were a lot of Europeans.
00:04:38Yes, and I think that it was also a chance to lose in the face of the world's country.
00:04:45We lost all the arguments to continue to use the soft power that we had.
00:04:56Every six months, the Special Rapporteur submits a report on human rights abuses there, compiled from over a hundred sources.
00:05:07Journalists, NGOs, and frontline observers, with whom she is in constant contact.
00:05:12We spoke for several months, until October 2024, when she was set to publish her report, Genocide as Colonial Erasure.
00:05:23A diplomatic bombshell, confirming the genocide.
00:05:28I look at what happened since the month of March.
00:05:35In fact, I think that the goal is to make sure the whole ethnic treatment of Palestine.
00:05:42She is banned from entering Israel, and thus Palestine.
00:06:03As is the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, who has just joined the small club of Persona Non Grata in Tel Aviv.
00:06:16The crisis between the UN and Israel is unprecedented.
00:06:20Israel seeks to ban Francesca from entering US territory.
00:06:24And the American ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, insists on ending her mission.
00:06:33But Francesca begins a worldwide marathon at the UN headquarters, that will last for many months.
00:06:44As Italian or local survivor Primo Levi reminds us,
00:06:49it is amnesia of the past and the erasure of its victims that allows history to repeat itself.
00:06:54The crime of genocide consists of acts accompanied by an intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such.
00:07:04In Gaza, Israel's constant bombing, sniper, and artillery fire has continued to spare no one,
00:07:10non-journalists, students, scholars, doctors, nurses, persons with disabilities, people seeking food and safety,
00:07:17or humanitarian workers, including UN staff.
00:07:20This should have been stopped already by the Security Council last October,
00:07:24after three early warnings issued by dozens of UN independent experts,
00:07:28when the ICJ passed its first set of provisional measures.
00:07:32When I presented my first report, or before Rafa was invaded, or before the invasion of Lebanon,
00:07:37and instead, the silence, or worse, the justification of a small but very influential number of states in this room,
00:07:45leaves me utterly lost of word.
00:07:54Echoing the report, the editor-in-chief of the Israeli paper, Haaretz, wonders,
00:07:59if it looks like ethnic cleansing, it probably is.
00:08:03It's a tragedy, both for the Palestinians and for the Israelis,
00:08:09because especially the young generations, the young soldiers who have been the willful executioners of a genocide,
00:08:17when they will realise what they've done, when they will re-humanise the Palestinians,
00:08:22that so far they have not seen as human beings, as they were crushing their bodies,
00:08:26as they were desecrating their homes and churches and mosques,
00:08:29as they were destroying their life.
00:08:31Individual, collective, as they were killing kids,
00:08:36including with bullets in their heads and their torso,
00:08:38because this is what we are talking about.
00:08:41It will be a tragedy, we'll dawn on them.
00:08:45And while I'm really disappointed, frustrated, irritated to hear a number of people,
00:08:52particularly in the West, pontificating about what genocide is and is not,
00:08:58let's, I will say, let's not confuse the motives with intent.
00:09:05Because not only there was clearly rage for the horror that Israelis have endured on October 7th,
00:09:12and there is no question about that, and we should be very, very clear in recognising what the Israeli society has undergone.
00:09:19But, please, let's stop talking about a conflict.
00:09:24This is not a conflict, this is not a war, unless you qualify it as a settler-colonial conflict,
00:09:31where the state, a state's army, is confronting an exhausted population, which, of course, resists.
00:09:40We don't agree with that, let me be clear.
00:09:44And in the meantime, we are continuing to press the Israelis to take into account civilian casualties
00:09:51as they carry out their efforts to end Hamases.
00:09:56Madam, Mike Wagenheim with I-24 News.
00:10:02It's been a while since we've last spoken.
00:10:05Based on that statement, it seems to infer that you believe that Israel has been an occupier since the day of its birth.
00:10:11Is that your position?
00:10:13You said since its establishment, Israel has treated occupied people, etc.
00:10:19Are you inferring that Israel has been an occupier since 1940?
00:10:21Why do you have to infer instead of sticking to what I said?
00:10:25I'm asking, that's what's in it.
00:10:26Let me elaborate.
00:10:28It's not just about what has been happening in the occupied Palestinian territory for the past 57 years.
00:10:37It's the fact that, unfortunately, there is a continuity with patterns of conduct that had already been enacted in modern-day Israel.
00:10:50I have one other question for you, because I know my colleagues want to...
00:10:53A few days ago, you were supposed to have a briefing with members of Congress.
00:10:57That briefing was canceled.
00:11:00I don't know if the Jewish lobby was behind it or not, but...
00:11:03Oh, you said Jewish lobby.
00:11:04Jewish lobby.
00:11:05Watch out, because it's very anti-Semitic, apparently.
00:11:07It is.
00:11:07I was...
00:11:08I didn't use it.
00:11:09You did.
00:11:10I don't know who you feel was behind it.
00:11:12In any case, you appeared, and your appearance there was sponsored by...
00:11:17That evening, a curious video attacking the special rapporteur was displayed in Times Square.
00:11:30Behind the smear campaign, UN Watch, a Geneva-based NGO, led by Canadian Hillel Neuer, works to protect Israeli interests by targeting those documenting occupation.
00:12:00War crimes, and crimes against humanity in the Palestinian territories.
00:12:06Thank you, Mr. Neuer, for being here.
00:12:08The first point you make about Fransfansiska Albanese is very shocking.
00:12:13Maybe you can elaborate what the...
00:12:16She worked in the legal office of UNRWA when we first began to document how UNRWA teachers and school principals regularly celebrate Adolf Hitler and call for the murder of Jews.
00:12:27Chris Gunnars' initial response...
00:12:28To kill the message, target the messenger.
00:12:32UN Watch first tried to discredit Richard Falk, the previous special rapporteur.
00:12:41Now it devotes most of its efforts to targeting Francesca Albanese.
00:12:45To understand UN Watch's role, we must revisit its origins.
00:12:59Founded in 1993 by American diplomat Morris Abram, it has had links to the radical Israeli right wing for nearly half a century.
00:13:07With me tonight to support this proposition are Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:13:20Abram, 15 years later, became the US representative of the UN Human Rights Council, and his young counterpart, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:13:31Mr. Netanyahu is a graduate of MIT, he is an Israeli.
00:13:36Mr. Netanyahu, do the Palestinians have a right to a separate state?
00:13:43No, I don't think they do, but I think that it's quite instructive that the Palestinians who are invoking the right of self-determination,
00:13:52which is an attribute for separate nations themselves.
00:13:57This debate is not new. It dates back to Israel's creation.
00:14:02I met Professor Ardi M. Seis, expert at the International Court of Justice,
00:14:07and a key figure on the UN's relation on the Palestinian issue.
00:14:12He has written for Cambridge a reference work simply entitled The UN and Palestine.
00:14:18I do believe it was on the 17th of September, 1948, or thereabouts,
00:14:28that Count Volk Bernadotte, the Swedish mediator, United Nations mediator for Palestine,
00:14:36was assassinated by Zionist groups.
00:14:40One day after he issued his progress report on the situation in Palestine,
00:14:46in which he said very clearly that there can be no peace without the return of the Palestinian refugees
00:14:53who had been ethnically cleansed from the territory.
00:14:56And I believe, and I think I have the right to believe,
00:15:01that we sooner or later, it might be sooner,
00:15:05can get a settlement and stop the war in Palestine.
00:15:08Well, he was assassinated for his statement and his position,
00:15:14despite himself being a protector of hundreds, even more,
00:15:20Jewish people during World War II in his own home country.
00:15:24At the time, the General Assembly, much like the UNSCOP membership,
00:15:36was dominated by the Western powers.
00:15:39Their confidence in the ability of the United Nations.
00:15:43It's not the same General Assembly that exists today that is dominated by the Global South, right?
00:15:47You had about 51 to 54 countries at the time,
00:15:50most of which were Western.
00:15:54And despite what international law required them to do,
00:15:57that is to allow Palestine to emerge or recommend full independence of all of the country,
00:16:04in line with the will of its majority population, right, which is democracy, right?
00:16:09They chose to separate and divide the country.
00:16:13And what they did was, they granted 57% of the territory to one-third of the population of the country,
00:16:21being the Zionist Jewish settler population.
00:16:24The Arab states that existed then, and a few from the Global South,
00:16:27the Indians, the Pakistanis, and others,
00:16:30told the Western states, look, you can't partition this.
00:16:33It would violate international law and the will of the majority of the population.
00:16:37And if you do, it will be a disastrous consequence.
00:16:42And indeed, that's exactly what happened.
00:16:44Three days after the partition resolution, civil war erupted.
00:16:48During the course of the first six months of the war, the 1948 war, which was a civil war,
00:16:53300,000 Palestinian Arabs were ethnically cleansed.
00:16:56When Israel proclaimed its independence on the 15th of May, 1948,
00:17:01and Arab countries entered Palestine to save it, to save Palestine,
00:17:06the war that continued for about another 12 months,
00:17:09produced another 450,000 Palestinian Arab refugees, the beginning of the Nakba.
00:17:19The United Nations is made up of six principal organs.
00:17:22The Security Council is made up of 15 member states,
00:17:26five of whom are permanent.
00:17:27The United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China.
00:17:31And they are given, under the UN Charter, a veto power over decision-making,
00:17:36but primarily because the mandate of the Security Council
00:17:40is international peace and security.
00:17:42That's where the core power and action sits.
00:17:46But then you have the plenary body, the General Assembly.
00:17:52The dynamic changes in the General Assembly with decolonization
00:18:02between the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, the number of member states triple.
00:18:09Today you have 193 member states, the vast majority of whom, 70, 80%,
00:18:15come from the global south, the formerly colonized countries.
00:18:19And so you see a change in the positions of the United Nations on everything.
00:18:25And the General Assembly has, since the mid-1970s,
00:18:29been very supportive, almost what is called
00:18:31the automatic majority of Palestinian rights.
00:18:35The General Assembly is now voting on draft resolution titled
00:18:45Status of Palestine in the United Nations.
00:18:49Exactly.
00:18:51Please log the machine.
00:18:53But because the General Assembly does not have a mandate,
00:19:08a primary mandate, over international peace and security,
00:19:11there is an imbalance in how both the Security Council
00:19:15and the General Assembly treats Palestine.
00:19:17It is an honor to appear before you today on behalf of the State of Palestine
00:19:24and the Palestinian people.
00:19:27Each member state of the General Assembly
00:19:29has recourse to the International Court of Justice.
00:19:32In late December 2023, South Africa filed a complaint against Israel,
00:19:40the start of a lengthy inquiry.
00:19:43Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court,
00:19:46independent and responsible for prosecuting individuals,
00:19:50issued arrest warrants.
00:19:51U.S. senators and U.S. congresspeople,
00:19:54mostly Republicans, wrote you a letter signed by Senator Tom Cotton,
00:19:58Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and others.
00:20:00This is the quote.
00:20:02Target Israel and we will target you.
00:20:05If you move forward with the measures indicated in the report,
00:20:08we will move to end all American support for the ICC,
00:20:12sanction your employees and associates,
00:20:15and bar you and your families from the United States.
00:20:18You have been warned.
00:20:20Is that a threat?
00:20:22I think that's the plain meaning of it in English.
00:20:30Amnesty International has also issued a report
00:20:33concluding genocide is occurring.
00:20:35Amnesty International has also issued a report on the United States.
00:20:40Amnesty International has also issued a report on the U.S. Congress.
00:20:41Amnesty International has also issued a report to the United States.
00:20:44A country's report, the U.S. Congress,
00:20:44which was the U.S. Congress,
00:20:46they were established by theよう for the United States.
00:20:48A country's report was issued a report of genocide.
00:20:50Amnesty International has a report.
00:20:51Amnesty International has a report of the U.S. Congress,
00:20:52that's a report.
00:20:53Amnesty International has a report of these issues.
00:20:53of the case.
00:20:54The president of the government,
00:20:55who was the president of the government,
00:20:56who was elected by the president Karim Khan,
00:20:58by the CPI.
00:20:59The leader of Hamas.
00:21:02And also the report of Amnesty International,
00:21:05which also, in contestation,
00:21:07qualifies what happened in Gaza
00:21:09as a genocide.
00:21:11Well, I think that this is not historical
00:21:14that the court penalty international
00:21:17because it doesn't like it.
00:21:20It's the first time
00:21:21that the leaders associated
00:21:22to the Western world
00:21:23are joined by a mandat of arrestation.
00:21:28Let's say,
00:21:29after an hour of investigation,
00:21:34you arrive at the point
00:21:36that you only see that.
00:21:38So it's kind of reassuring
00:21:40that there are others
00:21:41who say the same thing,
00:21:42because you say,
00:21:43I'm not crazy.
00:21:45Israel is intentionally committing genocide in Gaza.
00:21:52That's according to a report
00:21:53from Amnesty International.
00:21:57We looked at the statement made by officials
00:22:01at the highest level,
00:22:03those in the war cabinet.
00:22:04We looked at how soldiers interpreted those statements,
00:22:09those on the ground,
00:22:10and how they called as well
00:22:12for the dehumanization of Palestinians
00:22:15and for the obliteration of Gaza.
00:22:19Francesca invited me to Villa Monnier by Lake Geneva,
00:22:27the annual meeting place
00:22:29for the 60 special rapporteurs
00:22:31who work by theme or by country.
00:22:33Their task is to gather evidence and testimonies
00:22:40so the UN can act on the most urgent crises.
00:22:45What I initiated was the regular meeting
00:22:48on a,
00:22:49we have met on a weekly basis
00:22:51from November until August
00:22:54in order to exchange information.
00:22:56So I would provide input
00:22:58on the factual developments on the ground
00:23:02both in the West Bank of Gaza
00:23:04and East Jerusalem.
00:23:05You're also destroying the cultural heritage.
00:23:08You are destroying the entire archives,
00:23:10a hundred years of their archives.
00:23:13So you're destroying the possibility
00:23:15of an identity,
00:23:16and part to me of education
00:23:18is really building that collective identity.
00:23:21That means you're really wanting
00:23:22to destroy a people in complete,
00:23:24in totality,
00:23:25and that is what genocide is.
00:23:27But it's also the destruction
00:23:29of natural resources around.
00:23:31crops,
00:23:33attacking of water,
00:23:34and other sources
00:23:35for the infrastructure as well,
00:23:39bombing of solar panels.
00:23:41And so that is also not only an element
00:23:45that is linked to my mandate,
00:23:46but an additional element linked to,
00:23:49and that unfortunately is proving
00:23:52one element after the other
00:23:54as a list of the elements of genocide.
00:23:57In my case, it's both the facts,
00:23:59but also the convention
00:24:01and the decisions that we are quoting.
00:24:04It's not our invention.
00:24:05It's the ICJ saying that
00:24:07this is already happening
00:24:09and this is something that constitutes
00:24:11adding elements for genocide.
00:24:13It's not you bomb a building
00:24:16because there is someone
00:24:18with a gun inside.
00:24:20No, no.
00:24:21You destroy all the buildings,
00:24:25all the houses,
00:24:27as a way of destroying
00:24:29the possibility of living there.
00:24:31The reports serve as a basis
00:24:41for criminal prosecution.
00:24:43As Francesca considers
00:24:45the possible legal follow-ups
00:24:46to her new report,
00:24:47I introduce her to lawyer Johan Sufi,
00:24:51former UN legal officer in Gaza
00:24:53and prosecutor for war crimes in Ukraine,
00:24:56expert in identifying war crimes,
00:24:59crimes against humanity and genocide,
00:25:01and founder of JURDI.
00:25:03There are actions that start to lead
00:25:07and it's good to coordinate
00:25:09to learn from each other.
00:25:11Because I think that
00:25:12as soon as we start to see
00:25:14one or two cases of success,
00:25:16in Europe,
00:25:17in the Western world,
00:25:18it will also cause...
00:25:20It will also cause...
00:25:21It will also cause...
00:25:22It will also cause...
00:25:23It will also cause...
00:25:24It will also cause...
00:25:25...experts on the rights penal
00:25:26for attacking, for example,
00:25:27by the francs-franco-israeli
00:25:29who come to France
00:25:30to ask them to claim complaints.
00:25:31It will also cause...
00:25:32It will also cause...
00:25:33...experts on the rights
00:25:34of the society and the responsibilities
00:25:35of the businesses.
00:25:36It's your next report.
00:25:38It will also cause...
00:25:39...experts on the rights of the administrative
00:25:40when there is a manifestation
00:25:42that it is forbidden
00:25:43to defend the Palestinian government.
00:25:44So that's it.
00:25:45It's a great deal.
00:25:46With a pool of expertise.
00:25:48And all,
00:25:49our only point common,
00:25:52it's...
00:25:53the respect of rights in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
00:25:57That's right.
00:25:59Perhaps you have heard it.
00:26:01I said that the justice for Palestine begins at the same time.
00:26:03Exactly, exactly.
00:26:05Good evening everyone.
00:26:07I'm Morgan Schultz.
00:26:09I'm a jurist in the international law.
00:26:12I'm a director of the CPI.
00:26:14I started with the rights of the human rights,
00:26:17and the dictatorship.
00:26:18I started working with the civil society
00:26:21on all the documentation of crimes in Lebanon and Syria.
00:26:25Ghislain, I don't know if there's a need to present you.
00:26:28I think everyone knows you,
00:26:30but maybe present you in just two minutes.
00:26:33GERDI unites lawyers, magistrates and solicitors,
00:26:37aiming to prosecute firms, persons and institutions
00:26:40that may be complicit in crimes committed in Gaza.
00:26:44There's still this very restrictive conception
00:26:47only for Palestine,
00:26:49of the Commission.
00:26:51In fact, if we're not the one who has tortured or committed crime with our hands,
00:26:55we're not responsible.
00:26:56But we need to remember,
00:26:58and to return to the past,
00:27:02to explain that in reality,
00:27:04the modes of responsibility
00:27:06that have been established in the international law,
00:27:09especially because of what happened during the Second World War,
00:27:15it's all participation, all contributions to these crimes.
00:27:18And so, if one day we decide to make a dossier
00:27:22for a guy who simply
00:27:24has caused the entry of a humanitarian aid in Gaza,
00:27:29we go there,
00:27:30and we do all a concrete dossier
00:27:32that explains why, yes,
00:27:34we can be complicit
00:27:35of crimes against humanity or genocide,
00:27:37simply by keeping a door
00:27:40to Eretz or Karem Shalom.
00:27:44The genocide,
00:27:52it's not even the destruction,
00:27:54it's the intention to destroy in all,
00:27:56in part,
00:27:57so there will be a genocide
00:27:58with very few deaths
00:27:59from the moment
00:28:00when the intention
00:28:01that is behind the murders,
00:28:03the imposition of life conditions
00:28:05that leads to the destruction of a group
00:28:07or the transfer of children,
00:28:08for example,
00:28:09is made in the intention
00:28:11of destroying in all,
00:28:12in all, in all,
00:28:13in all, in all,
00:28:14this group.
00:28:21And the question
00:28:22that we have to ask is
00:28:23what is the intention
00:28:24behind the criminal acts
00:28:26israelis?
00:28:27Is it to destroy Hamas
00:28:29and therefore
00:28:30to make collateral damage
00:28:32in which case
00:28:33it would be a lack of precaution
00:28:34and so,
00:28:35war crimes
00:28:36but without intention
00:28:37is it possible
00:28:38that we could believe
00:28:39if we had to stop
00:28:42the bombings
00:28:43at the moment
00:28:44when the vast majority
00:28:45of the leaders
00:28:46of Hamas were destroyed
00:28:47and when the objectives
00:28:48of war were
00:28:49were made.
00:28:50Is it simply
00:28:51to be aimed at
00:28:53to attack the civil population
00:28:56without other intentions
00:28:57behind?
00:28:58We could also think
00:28:59that even
00:29:00if the deprivation
00:29:01of water,
00:29:02of electricity,
00:29:03of food
00:29:04makes it think
00:29:05that there is something
00:29:06of the most important
00:29:07behind.
00:29:08In my experience,
00:29:09it has never happened
00:29:11that a genocidaire
00:29:12the claim
00:29:13haut and fort
00:29:14like that.
00:29:15Even in Rwanda,
00:29:16I worked in Rwanda
00:29:17for four years
00:29:18and a half,
00:29:19even
00:29:20for the genocide
00:29:21of the Tutsi
00:29:22where there was no doubt
00:29:23about the intention
00:29:24of the genocide,
00:29:25we used the paraboles,
00:29:26the metaphors,
00:29:27we talked about
00:29:28cutting the herbs,
00:29:29we talked about
00:29:30against the incontaneous
00:29:31against the combatants
00:29:32from the north
00:29:33of Uganda.
00:29:34We have never said
00:29:35black on black,
00:29:36but our goal
00:29:37is to eliminate
00:29:38all the Tutsi.
00:29:39since October the 7th,
00:29:48the tension grows
00:29:49between those protesting
00:29:50against the Israeli massacres
00:29:52and the Western countries
00:29:54choosing to criminalize
00:29:55the debate.
00:29:56Germany stands out.
00:30:01In February 2025,
00:30:03under pressure,
00:30:04many German universities
00:30:05were forced to cancel
00:30:06Francesca Albanese's lectures.
00:30:08The German police
00:30:10attempted to arrest her,
00:30:12but she has diplomatic immunity,
00:30:14a first in Europe.
00:30:16the first in Europe.
00:30:19There was this feeling of fear
00:30:21because the police
00:30:22was clear
00:30:23that they wanted to stop me.
00:30:24They called the United Nations
00:30:26and said
00:30:27we have to clarify
00:30:28what is the status
00:30:29of Mrs Albanese
00:30:31because she said
00:30:32things that are
00:30:33a crime.
00:30:34And the office said
00:30:36that she has the status
00:30:37of an ambassador,
00:30:38of an ambassador.
00:30:39It's a diplomatic status.
00:30:41You're not police, right?
00:30:44Camouflaging.
00:30:45So, I have to admit
00:30:59that about 75 hours
00:31:03in this country
00:31:05have made me pretty nervous.
00:31:08We have to focus on
00:31:10what happened
00:31:11between these months
00:31:14between May 2024
00:31:15and March 2025.
00:31:17Why did I meet
00:31:18where, instead of 25,
00:31:2130 organizations
00:31:23of civil society
00:31:24there were three?
00:31:25Why?
00:31:26Because they are not
00:31:28comfortable
00:31:29to talk about Palestine?
00:31:30Because,
00:31:31and that's the problem,
00:31:32the repression
00:31:34caused by the police
00:31:37was enormous.
00:31:42Her priority
00:31:43is to mobilize
00:31:44public opinion
00:31:45and policy makers
00:31:46to apply her report's
00:31:47conclusions.
00:31:48Respecting international
00:31:50warrants
00:31:51and halting
00:31:52Western armed supplies
00:31:53are for her
00:31:54the only way
00:31:55to hold Netanyahu
00:31:56accountable.
00:31:57Western governments
00:31:59are hostile
00:32:00towards this
00:32:01and try to discredit her.
00:32:02For a long standing
00:32:04period of time
00:32:05oppose the mandate
00:32:06of this special rapporteur
00:32:07which we believe
00:32:08is not productive.
00:32:09I can't help
00:32:10but note
00:32:11a history
00:32:12of anti-Semitic
00:32:13comments
00:32:14that she has made
00:32:15that have been reported.
00:32:16She made anti-Semitic comments?
00:32:17She has
00:32:18and comments
00:32:19she made...
00:32:20Anti-Semitism
00:32:21is hatred
00:32:23or discrimination
00:32:24against the Jewish people
00:32:25because they're Jewish.
00:32:26Now, this is not one...
00:32:29The criticism
00:32:30or the allegations
00:32:31of anti-Semitism
00:32:33against me
00:32:34have nothing to do
00:32:35with it.
00:32:36I'm accused
00:32:37to be an anti-Semite
00:32:38because I criticize Israel
00:32:40not for what it is
00:32:42but for what it does.
00:32:45She has earned the respect
00:32:46of the Palestinian community
00:32:48also subject to pressure
00:32:50and accused of anti-Semitism.
00:33:02It's controversial.
00:33:03For Palestinians
00:33:04we all agree
00:33:05on Maqloba
00:33:06because Israel
00:33:07separated us
00:33:08between Jordan,
00:33:09Lebanon,
00:33:10Syria,
00:33:11the West Bank,
00:33:12Jerusalem,
00:33:13Gaza
00:33:14and we have so many differences
00:33:15in geographical
00:33:16and cultural
00:33:17and political
00:33:19divisions
00:33:20but we all agree
00:33:21on Maqloba.
00:33:22And the only thing
00:33:23that we disagree on
00:33:24is with parsley
00:33:25or without parsley.
00:33:35In our millions,
00:33:36in our billions
00:33:37we are all Palestinians
00:33:38and I do feel
00:33:39to be heard.
00:33:41And we deserve
00:33:42places and venues
00:33:43like this
00:33:44to be able to say it
00:33:46loud and proud
00:33:47without being judged,
00:33:49without being validated,
00:33:51without being censored.
00:33:53And we have a very strong
00:33:54Palestinian voice
00:33:55that deserve to be heard
00:33:57in every single corner
00:33:58on earth.
00:33:59They're trying even
00:34:00to normalize genocide.
00:34:01Normalize
00:34:02making another Nagasaki
00:34:04and Hiroshima
00:34:05in our day life.
00:34:07And guess what?
00:34:08When your children
00:34:09and your family
00:34:10ask you
00:34:11when you are very old
00:34:12later on,
00:34:13what have you done
00:34:14while this genocide
00:34:15has been happening?
00:34:17You can proudly
00:34:18and loudly say that
00:34:19I've done my best
00:34:20and I was out there
00:34:21on the front line.
00:34:22And that's exactly
00:34:23what Francesca is doing.
00:34:24And that's exactly
00:34:25what you guys are doing.
00:34:26We refuse to sit
00:34:28and watch.
00:34:32And that's exactly
00:34:34what you do.
00:34:35And that's exactly
00:34:36what you do.
00:34:37And that's exactly
00:34:38what you do.
00:34:40All right.
00:34:42It's very difficult
00:34:43to find out
00:34:45in environments
00:34:46where you hear
00:34:47the rage,
00:34:48the pain
00:34:49of the Palestinians.
00:34:50It's impressive.
00:34:51Osama, it was a few months ago,
00:34:56he lost his son.
00:34:57In fact, he didn't know if he was dead or not.
00:35:01He was taken by the Israelis.
00:35:04It's clear that at some point,
00:35:06there was a rage that would rest.
00:35:08It would be inhuman to not have that.
00:35:12But it's hard to absorb everything.
00:35:15It hurts me.
00:35:21And all the people, the woman to whom you were,
00:35:24the journalist, also next to you.
00:35:26She lost 90 members of her family,
00:35:31all her uncles, all the cousins,
00:35:33the people with whom she grew up.
00:35:35She was next to me.
00:35:38There were tears.
00:35:41There was a lot of tears.
00:35:43Palestinian stories.
00:35:46But we didn't come from this world.
00:35:50My guest is the UN Special Rapporteur
00:35:56on the Palestinian Occupied Territories, Francesca Albanese.
00:36:00She's a very controversial figure in Israel
00:36:03and her appearances all over the world
00:36:06are often accompanied by vitriolic campaigns.
00:36:10As we speak, Israel has broken the ceasefire.
00:36:14What's your reaction to what has happened overnight?
00:36:16Well, hi. Thanks for having me.
00:36:18First of all, it's not that Israel broke the ceasefire last night.
00:36:22Israel has just killed around 400 people.
00:36:25And this is the acceleration of, not aware,
00:36:28of the genocide that is happening in real time.
00:36:32Do you feel A, it's worth it,
00:36:34and B, you're achieving anything right now?
00:36:38I don't know. Worth is not the first word that comes to my mind.
00:36:46Well, your personal security is in jeopardy right now, isn't it?
00:36:48Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:36:50I'm asking myself. I have two young children.
00:36:52So my answer is no one in my life is more important than anyone else,
00:37:00including you, Krishnan.
00:37:01So if you were in Gaza with your family,
00:37:05you would be very happy to have someone like me taking the risk.
00:37:08An ordinary day for the UN Special Rapporteur.
00:37:20Channel 4 kept its interview,
00:37:22while CNN cancelled theirs just minutes beforehand.
00:37:26The University of London is under pressure to cancel her visit that day.
00:37:32No, this is not normal.
00:37:34They, it's not about roasting people.
00:37:36They don't have a politician.
00:37:37They should understand whom,
00:37:39and this is something probably we need to tell people.
00:37:41She's not a politician and she's not an activist.
00:37:44She's a human rights lawyer mandated by the Human Rights Council.
00:37:47I was going to ask you earlier today,
00:37:49is there something we should be saying to media,
00:37:52saying, please understand she's an international expert?
00:37:55It's funny because Krishnan is sympathetic, right?
00:37:58I don't know.
00:37:59He's, he's, but...
00:38:00But I don't want people who are sympathetic.
00:38:02I want people who ask neutral questions
00:38:04instead of pushing me as if I had to prove something to,
00:38:08to him or his audience.
00:38:10Excuse me.
00:38:11I mean, and, and yes,
00:38:12I'm generally quite understanding and flexible and accommodating.
00:38:15But you know that the,
00:38:18the words that come to my mind sometimes when I ask their,
00:38:21when I hear their questions are not particularly polite.
00:38:24Polite.
00:38:25Oh.
00:38:26The next meeting is with Hossam Zomlot,
00:38:29the Palestinian ambassador.
00:38:30It's probably, it's going to be cancelled because it was now.
00:38:32So we're going to go straight to the meeting
00:38:34with all the ambassadors.
00:38:36Probably.
00:38:37Are they in the same location?
00:38:38Ah, okay.
00:38:39It's the same, it's the same meeting.
00:38:40So we might have five minutes with him.
00:38:41Yes.
00:38:42And then you'll go into a meeting with all the Arab ambassadors,
00:38:44who have all put out statements.
00:38:46There is Bahrain, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia,
00:38:51Algeria, Qatar, League of Arab State, Yemen, Morocco.
00:38:55Oof.
00:38:56Lebanon, Iraq, Qatar, Sudan, Oman, Kuwait.
00:38:59France has also joined the condemnation.
00:39:01Saudi Arabia and Qatar have denounced the attacks.
00:39:04Israel has said they killed at least four officials overnight
00:39:07from Hamas.
00:39:08Not a legitimate target under international humanitarian law.
00:39:12They're just saying everyone is guilty.
00:39:13Yeah, but guys, also this thing of the legitimate target,
00:39:15excuse me, I mean, we should...
00:39:16I know, I know, I know.
00:39:17No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:39:18But you should ask about, I mean, if it were Ukraine,
00:39:20nobody would be framing it like this at all.
00:39:22Yeah.
00:39:23The Ukraine bar hospitals, bar the school.
00:39:25The entire Arab Ambassadors Council here in the Europe,
00:39:31we have a very good attendance by most of them
00:39:35and the ones who are not available.
00:39:37I've sent their charges.
00:39:38And we will have also members of the House of Lords here.
00:39:42And very good sort of gathering
00:39:48because everybody realizes the importance of the work you're doing
00:39:51and how can we help.
00:39:54You don't need to help me.
00:39:57They need to help stop this massacre.
00:39:59Of course, of course.
00:40:01It's not true.
00:40:02They're not trying their own.
00:40:03I mean, this is to be very clear.
00:40:05If I'm not going to make anyone feel comfortable around it.
00:40:13Francesca is aware of her advocacy's limits with Arab Ambassadors.
00:40:18Their countries, most eager not to act,
00:40:21have so far merely expressed indignation.
00:40:29What is the position on the ICC arrest warrants?
00:40:33Hmm. Okay.
00:40:34So there's a bit of a double game going on.
00:40:36There's a concern that the UK courts would say that Netanyahu has immunity.
00:40:49We are not just witnessing a war.
00:40:59We are witnessing a genocide.
00:41:01This time live streamed all over the world.
00:41:04I find myself in Parliament raising the question,
00:41:07are we culpable or are we not if we're supplying weapons to a country that we know is in breach of the international opinion,
00:41:15the opinions of the ICJ and the ICC.
00:41:18And so it is a very powerful argument.
00:41:20And I have to say, I think public opinion in Britain has changed dramatically over the past 16 months.
00:41:25changed dramatically in support of the Palestinian people and their right to be able to live in peace.
00:41:33And you quite rightly say of these 18,000 children that have been killed.
00:41:39It's a figure, it's hard to comprehend.
00:41:41Yeah.
00:41:42And those beautiful young lives that have all been destroyed.
00:41:45And if their parents or their relatives are still alive every year on their birthday,
00:41:51they're going to be thinking, what would they have been doing now?
00:41:54What would they be achieved now?
00:41:55Gone.
00:41:56As small children, something utterly disgusting about it.
00:41:59So I raise with great anger in Parliament.
00:42:02Why are we allowing the weapons to go in knowing what they're going to be used for?
00:42:08What do you think about the pressure of opinion here in England?
00:42:12I think it works.
00:42:13I think it matters.
00:42:14When the first vote was put in Parliament about a ceasefire, there was a lot of very,
00:42:22they thought, very clever manoeuvring to prevent a proper vote being put.
00:42:26And those MPs that were involved in the manoeuvring and voted against the ceasefire
00:42:31suddenly found themselves the target of a large number of people,
00:42:35many of whom had never done anything political in their lives before, just angry.
00:42:40And then a week later, there was a statement in the House, and MPs were falling over themselves
00:42:46to say how much they were in favour of a ceasefire.
00:42:49London resists that evening.
00:42:59At the university, whose president upheld Francesca's visit, outside, a vehement yet peaceful outrage remains unabated.
00:43:11I'm not supposed to be in a protest, but just to say something.
00:43:13I'm not supposed to be in a protest, but just to say something.
00:43:17thank you for resisting the brutality of this lawlessness.
00:43:27we can do better, keep on being lovely, kind and caring, no violence ever, even when you are the target of violence.
00:43:42please stay peaceful, because this is who we are.
00:43:58we fight, we fight lawlessness, even with our hands tied behind our back, because this is who we are.
00:44:04So please stay safe, I know it's tough, I know it's hard, but you are not alone.
00:44:19Does Francesca's work, where the UN institution and activism now meet, also mask the UN's failures in the Middle East?
00:44:26Rwanda, Bosnia, Congo, Sudan, how often has the UN failed to act?
00:44:40In the Middle East, most Western countries criticise it for acting.
00:44:49In southern Lebanon, on Israel's northern border, the paralysis of peacekeeping is evident.
00:44:55the UN's
00:45:06At the end of 2024, the UN interim force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, was targeted by Israeli bombing.
00:45:14It helps the Lebanese army gain control over south Lebanon, against Hezbollah and Israeli forces.
00:45:20Despite their valour in the world's most dangerous areas, do these Indian troops have what it takes?
00:45:35Rwanda in 1994, the United States was against using the word genocide, as the term is far from empty.
00:45:41Legally, it obliges states to prevent it and stop it.
00:45:50What can the UN do if nations lack the will?
00:45:55We head to the Palestinian territories via Tel Aviv, where Francesca cannot travel to.
00:46:10I delve into her 28-page report, each line, each word, revealing the reality endured by the Palestinian population.
00:46:19Excerpt from Francesca Albanese's report.
00:46:26Gaza's destruction continues unabated.
00:46:28The violence, waged since October the 7th, against Palestinians, does not arise from nowhere.
00:46:33It's part of a campaign orchestrated by the state to cause forced displacement and the long-term exodus of Palestinians.
00:46:42In the pages of Haaretz, a chilling poll appears.
00:46:53Of Israeli Jews, 82% say they support the expulsion of Gazans.
00:46:59And 47% find it acceptable for the Israeli army to carry out mass executions of civilians.
00:47:06I met with a protest leader opposing Netanyahu and his far-right government.
00:47:14Activist and journalist Yuri Mizgav is also one of Haaretz's loudest voices.
00:47:21The thing is that Netanyahu needs the war in order to stay in political power.
00:47:28In Israeli history, if a war is needed, it has to be quick and short.
00:47:33Israel is a small country. This is not Soviet Union or Ukraine.
00:47:39It doesn't have a huge army. It's a very strong army, but it's not very big.
00:47:43Now we are facing for the first time the need of the government to sustain the war.
00:47:48It's not because of the interest of the Israelis. It doesn't bring any benefits.
00:47:53There's nothing to kill or destroy more in Gaza.
00:47:56Of course you can kill more Hamas militants, but they always have new ones.
00:47:59You probably have footage of Gaza.
00:48:07Yeah.
00:48:09Well ruined, well destroyed, devastating. It looks like Dresden or Hiroshima.
00:48:13Most Israelis, by the way, don't know that.
00:48:16They avoid looking at that. We almost don't get foreign media here.
00:48:19They refuse to look at the consequences of the war because it's too hard with your conscience.
00:48:27I must say that the Israeli society is traumatized.
00:48:32It's not even post-traumatized. It's still traumatized by October 7th.
00:48:35Even for liberal Democrats, people like me who always supported peace process, reconciliation with Palestinians, it's a trauma.
00:48:46The influence of that trauma is, I think, dehumanization of Gaza.
00:48:51There's two million people there, but for many Israelis, all of them now are Hamas.
00:48:57All of them are terrorists or will become terrorists when they grow up.
00:49:02I will say it really bluntly, most Israelis don't care about Gaza now.
00:49:09I great care.
00:49:10I like it.
00:49:15I know.
00:49:20I love you.
00:49:26Yes, beaneron.
00:49:29Anybody, Evan Cohen'seminine,
00:49:32When I filmed the protests in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu was with Viktor Orban in Budapest,
00:49:57one of the few countries he can still visit.
00:50:00The international justice noose, Titans.
00:50:02In ethnic cleansings and genocides, there are many who support the perpetrators.
00:50:24And others, through a simple act, try to uphold humanity.
00:50:30In Tel Aviv, these people held up before their government the faces of Palestinian children massacred by their country's army.
00:50:42We will begin to go together as a plant to the bottom.
00:50:44We will expand the sections, the paintings, the paintings.
00:50:48...
00:50:59...
00:51:00...
00:51:01...
00:51:02...
00:51:04...
00:51:06...
00:51:11...
00:51:15The voices of historians are faint amid the bombs, yet they give history its truth.
00:51:32Internationally renowned expert in the Holocaust and genocides, at Jerusalem Hebrew University, Amos Goldberg is the first Israeli historian to link the word genocide to the reality in Gaza.
00:51:44We met on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, in the Arab district of the city.
00:51:51In the pages of Haaretz, Goldberg describes Gaza as a genocide, comparing it to other extermination episodes in modern history.
00:52:05Genocide is not killing each and every one of the group. Genocide is not only about numbers, though it has to be a significant number of killing. It's part of, I would say, the genocidal picture. And genocide is not only an event, it's an ongoing process. We see it in many, many places.
00:52:28Soviets' treatment of Ukraine as genocidal process.
00:52:35Rohingya, when Myanmar actually after would be called terrorist attack, killed some 10,000 Rohingya and America thinks it's a genocide, acknowledged it.
00:52:50And it's such hypocrisy because evidence, the scale of destruction, the killing, everything is the expressions of intent. The occurring structures of annihilation are so much more evident in Gaza.
00:53:09Relax.
00:53:11Let's give up strength to the enemy our weapons and the rulers. Are we afraid of the rights?
00:53:16We are afraid of the strength?
00:53:19They haven't heard about Gaza.
00:53:20Do we fear of the rights?
00:53:22Are we afraid of the rights?
00:53:25No.
00:53:27Are we afraid of the type of strength?
00:53:30We are fighting Israel. We are destroying the Azhar. We are staying at Azhar. We are protecting the enemy. We are saying thank you to the Holy Spirit. We are asking him more.
00:53:52We are going to go home and we are going to do another thing. To protect the Azhar. To protect the Azhar. To protect the Azhar.
00:54:06The truth is that this is the most important and the most true and true. Not in a way.
00:54:12But I will tell you that we will give you the opportunity to go to other countries.
00:54:19Exert from Francesca's report. The violence extends beyond Gaza. Israeli forces and settlers intensify ethnic cleansing patterns and apartheid in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
00:54:40patterns and apartheid in the west bank including east jerusalem
00:54:49palestinians call it the apartheid wall what else can we call it
00:54:57the failed oslo accords in 1993 the west bank had 100 000 israeli settlers
00:55:03today there are 800 000. far from the focus on gaza 57 new settlements were established after october
00:55:11the 7th excerpt from francesca albanese's report between the 7th of october 2023 and the end of
00:55:21september 2024 israeli forces carried out more than 5 505 raids violent settlers backed by israeli
00:55:29forces and officials carried out 1084 attacks killing over 692 palestinians and injuring 5199
00:55:44arriving in nablus the residents shut down the city in support of gaza
00:55:55the west bank knows its turn will come
00:55:59this grim reality is documented daily by the un agency for palestinian refugees known as unrua
00:56:23it has 30 000 employees working for 6 million refugees in lebanon syria jordan and palestinian areas
00:56:35the cell center was took over by israelis several times used by snipers unfortunately a number of
00:56:45people were killed by the people were killed by those snipers civilians uh and we reported this uh
00:56:52to to the israeli side at the moment uh they took the roof but also they took rooms uh the meeting room
00:56:59where they use it as a sniper station for for soldiers okay it was when it was it was in several
00:57:06operations yeah i mean like a month ago months ago and it was used also during the last operation in the
00:57:11capital excerpt from francesca's report on the west bank it's shocking that children are systematically
00:57:20targeted since october the 7th 169 palestinian children have been killed nearly 80 percent of
00:57:28them by a bullet to the head or torso
00:57:40We lived for half of the people of Gaza in the 10 days that we had.
00:57:48Did you think that this could happen?
00:57:51No.
00:57:52I was thinking that they would go like the rest of the days,
00:57:56a day, a day and a day, and they would go out.
00:57:58I didn't expect that they would stay in this very long time.
00:58:01There was no peace.
00:58:03There was a lot of trouble.
00:58:06There was no peace.
00:58:10There was no peace.
00:58:12There was no peace.
00:58:14There was no peace.
00:58:21The words of Uwadia, just 14 years old,
00:58:24in a report by Francesca Albanese.
00:58:28Fearing death won't stop you from dying.
00:58:31It'll stop you from living.
00:58:36What does ethnic cleansing look like in a welcoming land,
00:58:40suddenly transformed into a hell of fire and tragedy,
00:58:44as in Jenin, in February 2025,
00:58:47where you must, without knowing why, leave your life behind?
00:58:51The situation was tough.
00:58:56In the moment, I'm sitting at the house.
00:58:58My parents are in the house.
00:58:59My and my children are living in the house.
00:59:00We didn't see things like her.
00:59:01The situation broke.
00:59:02The car started removing fire from the wind.
00:59:03I couldn't imagine.
00:59:04I couldn't leave a lot of fire.
00:59:05I couldn't leave her.
00:59:06I couldn't leave my daughter at home with my daughter.
00:59:07Well, I didn't stop my daughter.
00:59:09I couldn't leave my daughter.
00:59:11I didn't stand.
00:59:12We stayed in the house.
00:59:14For example, the army was around me and the pirates
00:59:16me came.
00:59:17The army had been through the army,
00:59:18the military was the army and troops,
00:59:19I want you to take care of it.
00:59:21What do you want the last step?
00:59:25You don't have the child.
00:59:28We have the anger and the fear
00:59:30and we have the same pushing...
00:59:32We are all looking at it.
00:59:34We have the door.
00:59:3620 seconds, or 20 seconds,
00:59:38and we go to theойl.
00:59:40We're all in a bedroom.
00:59:42I'm going to take care of my chances.
00:59:44This time, 3 seconds left behind.
00:59:46My husband, my daughter,
00:59:48We had about 16 or 17 people in the street, and the drone was broken.
00:59:53We reached the first place, the new building.
00:59:56We had another building.
00:59:58We had 35-85 people.
01:00:01You don't know who you are talking about.
01:00:04The government is talking about the people who are talking about.
01:00:07You are talking about the people who are talking about it.
01:00:10We are talking about the people who are talking about it.
01:00:13We are talking about the social media.
01:00:16We are talking about the people who are talking about it.
01:00:23Exert from Francesca's report.
01:00:26In December 2023, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galan said that when Israeli Defense Forces finished in Gaza, it'll be Judea and Samaria's turn.
01:00:37Today, women.
01:00:40What's this?
01:00:42I saw our navigation pit Eventually it's trying to provide us better
01:00:45We're breaking ground now, it works very well
01:00:47My wife, can say to her?
01:00:48Yes
01:00:49My wife was here to hear earlier.
01:00:52We are north.
01:00:54You are od Tigers.
01:00:56We are here to meet ladies.
01:00:59While Germany is letting us getلا.
01:01:01Okay.
01:01:02You're welcome.
01:01:19It's about 5.07.
01:01:21We're at 7.00.
01:01:23We're out of the room.
01:01:25We're out of the room.
01:01:26We're out of the room.
01:01:28We're out of the room.
01:01:30We're out of the room.
01:01:32There was a piece of paper, which was the first piece of paper.
01:01:37I got here, this one.
01:01:39Yes, I didn't put my hand on my hand.
01:01:40Yes, I got a half in the house.
01:01:43Yes, I got a piece of paper.
01:01:45Yes, I got a piece of paper.
01:01:47I got a piece of paper.
01:01:49Yes.
01:01:50The first time I saw it in the house,
01:01:54before I got a piece of paper,
01:01:57I got a piece of paper.
01:02:00Yes.
01:02:02But when I saw it, it didn't come out of my hand,
01:02:05I got a piece of paper.
01:02:07Where did you get it?
01:02:09I got it in the head.
01:02:10You got it?
01:02:12Then I got it in the head,
01:02:13and then I got it in the head.
01:02:15I got it.
01:02:18But I got it in my head,
01:02:19and I got it in my head.
01:02:21It's a piece of paper.
01:02:23This is the piece of paper.
01:02:24Here is your father.
01:02:25Yes.
01:02:27Where did you think of your hand?
01:02:28Where did the city come from?
01:02:30We know it's about 10,000 people.
01:02:33They're close to here.
01:02:35Yeah, about 600 people.
01:02:37They were in the village.
01:02:38They were in the village and they didn't have anything.
01:02:41They just saw what happened.
01:02:43They just saw what happened.
01:02:58Almost every single day we have some sort of development, mostly they are sad developments.
01:03:17Whether it's the situation in Gaza with resumption of the airstrikes, whether it's the West Bank
01:03:24with this ongoing operation by the Israeli forces, that, according to our data, is the
01:03:33longest since the Second Intifada.
01:03:36Juliet Touma is at the forefront of information since the 7th of October 2023, from Gaza herself.
01:03:46The comment these past days is, oh no, but you know Juliet, but there is fatigue, it's
01:03:52been going on for a year and a half, and I'm like, I beg your pardon, fatigue, you are
01:03:57fatigued.
01:03:58There's the media sitting in London or Paris or Dubai reporting about, what about the people
01:04:04of Gaza?
01:04:06Who is fatigued?
01:04:12Now we have 300 UNRWA buildings.
01:04:18The vast majority of them are schools in Gaza who have been hit.
01:04:24We've had close to 290 colleagues killed at UNRWA.
01:04:30This is the highest ever in the history of the UN.
01:04:35We've had convoys shot at, we've had guest houses where staff stayed shot at, we've had
01:04:50staff arrested.
01:04:51For now, everything can be done without any consequences.
01:05:00It's an environment, in fact, of total impunity.
01:05:09Philippe Lazzarini, the media's target since October the 7th, ever since Israel sought to
01:05:14undermine the UN agency by claiming links to Hamas.
01:05:21Israel, Israel, a led a campaign in an increasing, saying that there are hundreds of thousands
01:05:34to thousands of employees who are part of the different politics groups, who are
01:05:39They distributed long lists of names, but never indicated where the information came from.
01:05:59Secondly, the agency submitted all the names of all its employees to Israel.
01:06:05But with one or two exceptions, we never received any information indicating that there was a concern about a political participation or a group of employees.
01:06:23So here, this is one of the collections for the Solid Waste management.
01:06:27How are you?
01:06:28How are you?
01:06:30Yes.
01:06:32Hello!
01:06:35I'm Palestine.
01:06:38You are what?
01:06:39It's time.
01:06:40Where are you?
01:06:41Oh, okay, good.
01:06:42I'm Palestine.
01:06:43Good.
01:06:44Yallah.
01:06:45Okay.
01:06:46For the State of the House?
01:06:47I'm sorry.
01:06:49I'm sorry.
01:06:54When the UNRWA was created, we asked the agency to ensure the human development and the humanitarian assistance assistance
01:07:03palestinien sur une base provisoire en attendant qu'une solution politique à
01:07:09la question palestinienne soit trouvée
01:07:16or on est 75 ans plus tard ça a été un provisoire qui a duré pendant 75 ans
01:07:21il n'y a toujours pas de solution politique
01:07:25aujourd'hui on a environ 100.000 élèves dans nos écoles uniquement en jordanie on en avait 300.000
01:07:38dans la bande de gaza 50.000 ans et jordanie 50.000 à peu près en syrie et la même chose au niveau
01:07:46donc au total à travers la région on nous avons entre 5 150 et 600 milles filles et garçons
01:07:55dans nos écoles primaires et secondaires
01:07:58depuis le 7 octobre 2023 on est devenu un mal qu'il faut éliminer à tout prix mais ça ça
01:08:10a été qu'on dire nourri par un mantra politique qui était de dire que aussi longtemps que l'agence
01:08:18existe le statut de réfugié des palestiniens va persister et si le statut de réfugié des
01:08:25palestiniens persiste ça va être un obstacle à une future solution politique dans la région donc en
01:08:35fait le réel objectif derrière l'élimination de l'agence c'est de se débarrasser du statut de
01:08:41réfugié de se débarrasser du droit du retour et puis d'affaiblir encore plus le droit à l'autodétermination des palestiniens
01:08:50palestiniens
01:09:04le rite de retourne is in ruins
01:09:06much like the devastated landscapes of gaza
01:09:09genin beirut
01:09:11or here in yarmouk ravaged by the syrian civil war
01:09:15on
01:09:2210 years ago on war ran the world's largest refugee camp with a million refugees
01:09:28including 200,000 palestiniens most of them descendants of the refugees of 1948
01:09:34history falters here as it does wherever the return of refugees is uncertain
01:09:51yarmouk reminds us that the expulsions exile and massacres endured by palestinians did not begin in 2023 but 75 years earlier during the nakba
01:10:02to those who sometimes wonder what the abstract UN machine is good for it helps survivors to survive
01:10:19in yarmouk thanks to the UN 13,000 people resettled
01:10:26the UNRWA gave basha a few hundred dollars to rebuild his home with his family and pick up his life where he had left it
01:10:28the UNRWA gave basha a few hundred dollars to rebuild his home with his family and pick up his life where he had left it
01:10:34history
01:10:37the UNRWA gave basha few hundred dollars to rebuild his home with his family and pick up his life where he had left it
01:10:42and pick up his life where he had left it.
01:11:12I got out of bed and I got out of bed and I said I'll die.
01:11:20If I stayed in the house, I can have to go back to bed and stay there.
01:11:27I went to bed and I got out of bed and I got out of bed.
01:11:32And my wife even got out of bed and I got out of bed.
01:11:37I was out of bed for a while and I got out of bed.
01:11:40I was dead after 4 days, but I had a lot of trouble.
01:11:50I don't know if I was a kid, but I was so happy.
01:11:55I was like, I don't know what to do.
01:11:58I was like, I don't know what to do.
01:12:01I don't know what to do.
01:12:03I don't know what to do.
01:12:05I don't know what to do.
01:12:07The UN was born with the partition of Palestine.
01:12:26Will it die with it?
01:12:29That's the UN's paradox, managing the aftermath of political disasters, but failing to prevent
01:12:35them.
01:12:36I could not enter Gaza.
01:12:41This footage was filmed by the UNRWA and the few Palestinian journalists still there.
01:12:46Over 250 have been killed since the 7th of October by the Israeli army, murdered for
01:12:53being reported.
01:12:57Gaza is starving.
01:12:58Denied for a year and a half, the genocide is now exposed for the world to see.
01:13:06Scientists don't produce images, but in Gaza there are images.
01:13:11Before us, a genocide patiently unfolds.
01:13:16Genocide is not invisible by a lack of images, but by words.
01:13:21I address you today with a sense of foreboding that words can hardly capture.
01:13:27I don't know.
01:13:28I don't know what more can be said.
01:13:3214 months ago, I warned that this genocide marked an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler
01:13:42colonial project over Asia, one that has targeted the Palestinian people for over seven decades.
01:13:50And now, it is happening and we must stop it.
01:13:54The situation in the occupied Palestinian territory is apocalyptic.
01:13:57In Gaza, people continue to endure suffering beyond imagination.
01:14:03Israel is responsible for one of the cruelest genocides in modern history.
01:14:08Official figures count over 200,000 killed or injured.
01:14:12Leading health experts estimate that the true toll is far higher.
01:14:16As the cost to the Palestinian people grows, Israel has dismantled the last function of
01:14:21the UN in Gaza, humanitarian aid.
01:14:27Those of you with a diplomatic presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, what do your
01:14:32colleagues report?
01:14:33What is your presence for if not to confirm what I'm saying and act to stop it in accordance
01:14:39with international law?
01:14:41At the same time, since October 2023, the Tel Aviv stock exchange has soared by 213% in
01:14:51US dollars, amassing 225.7 billion US dollars in market gains, including 67.8 billion in the
01:15:02last month alone.
01:15:04One people enriched, one people erased.
01:15:07My term as a special rapporteur, including the fierce opposition to my mandate, and this
01:15:11report in particular reveals a darker truth.
01:15:14Some states support Israel to preserve their regional dominance, creating the material conditions
01:15:19that sustain its settler colonial project and make it succeed in fact.
01:15:23As I conclude, let me say, Member States must impose a full arms embargo on Israel, suspend
01:15:28all trade agreements and investment relations, and enforce accountability, ensuring that corporate
01:15:34entities face legal consequences for their involvement in serious violations of international
01:15:39law.
01:15:40what comes next depends on all of us, and I truly believe that together we can make
01:15:46it.
01:15:47It's not a question of if, it's just a question of when.
01:15:51A rare moment, Francesca Albanese applauded by Assembly representatives, by all of them,
01:16:05or nearly all.
01:16:20Maybe the UN is at least that, a fight against erasure, through indignation and evidence presented
01:16:26to all nations at once.
01:16:33A week later, the US Secretary of State, who once threatened the International Criminal Court
01:16:38prosecutor, announced sanctions against Francesca Albanese.
01:16:41The imposition of sanctions on special rapporteurs is a dangerous precedent.
01:16:53The use of unilateral sanctions against special rapporteurs or any other UN expert or official
01:17:00is unacceptable.
01:17:02The UN has failed to stop the impunity.
01:17:13They have failed to function as a mechanism of prevention of conflicts.
01:17:19And there, in front of a genocide, Europe, not only does nothing, but continues globally to
01:17:27help, to tolerate, and to create the environment, to not block the genocide.
01:17:37I think it's awful that citizens should have to charge the responsibility of breaking the
01:17:44siege.
01:17:45Western public opinion has shifted, questioning their nation's complicity.
01:17:56A late recognition of a Palestinian state, two years after October the 7th and the genocide.
01:18:02But no arms embargo.
01:18:04No sanctions passed.
01:18:06No support for UNRWA to enforce humanitarian aid.
01:18:10More than ever, the Palestinian issue reveals the moral failure of the West towards the global
01:18:17South.
01:18:19United authorities.
01:18:20What?
01:18:32The state's isolation and economic indicators of the national economy in its own life.
01:18:36The state's destination, the order of the international war, is the power of the species.
01:18:38We all have the power of the Arab nation.
01:18:40We all have the power of the international war.
01:18:42This is a Jawazan and its own race, which is the power of the United States.
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