Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP)-An independent United Nations investigator and an outspoken critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza said on Thursday that it was “shocking” to know that it was “it was shocking” Trump administration imposed restrictions But he stood up with his thoughts about the war.
Franceska Albanis said in an interview with Associated Press that powerful was trying to silence them to defend them without any of their own power, “In addition to standing and expecting, they were not expecting to die, not their children to slaughter.”
Italian human rights lawyer said, “This is not a sign of power, it is a sign of crime.”
State Department’s decision to ban Albanis, United Nations Special Coordination For the West Bank and Gaza, followed a failed American pressure campaign to remove the United Nations’ top human rights body, Human Rights Council in Geneva.
He has been tasked to investigate human rights violations in Palestinian areas and is vocal about that he has described as a “genocide” Israel against Palestinians in GazaBoth Israel and America have strongly denied the allegation.
State Secretary Marco Rubio, posted on social media, said, “The political and economic war campaign against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated.” “We will always stand in the right to self -defense by our colleagues.”
America announced sanctions on Wednesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wasington was visiting Meeting with President Donald Trump and other officials about reaching the battle break in war in Gaza. Netanyahu faces an arrest warrant from the international criminal court, who accuses him of crimes against humanity in his military aggressive in Gaza.
In an interview, Albanis accused the US authorities of receiving Netanyahu with respect and side-by-side with someone desired by the ICC, a court that is neither a member of the US nor the Israel. Tusrap Court ban on court in February.
“We need to reversed the tide, and to happen – we need to unite,” he said. “They cannot silence all of us. They cannot kill all of us. They cannot fire all of us.”
Albanis insisted that the only way to win is to get rid of fear and stand for Palestinians and to stand for their rights for an independent state.
The stand of Trump administration is “not normal,” he said at Sarajevo Airport. He also reiterated, “Nobody is free until Palestine is free.”
Albani was the route for the 30th anniversary of the massacre in Sribrenica for the 30th anniversary of Friday, where more than 8,000 Bosniaq Muslim men and boys were killed in a non-protected safe area when it was grown by Bosnian Serbas.
The United Nations, Human Rights Clock and Constitutional Rights Center opposed the US step.
United Nations spokesman Stephen Dusarric said, “Implementing restrictions on special rappers is a dangerous example” and “unacceptable.”
While Albanis deserves the report of the Human Rights Council to disagree with the reports of Antonio Guterres-US and any other United Nations members independent coordination, “but we encourage them to join them with United Nations Human Rights architecture.”
Trump announced that the US was withdrawing from the council in February.
The war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas -led militants led to a storm in Israel and killed some 1,200 people, mostly citizens, and 251 people. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, Israel’s anti -retraction campaign has killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, stating that women and children make most of the dead, but do not specify how many fighters or citizens were.
About 21 months in the conflict displacing the vast majority of 2.3 million people of Gaza, the United Nations says that hunger is fierce after a long Israeli blockade on food entering the area and medical care is extremely limited.
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AP writer Edith M. Laderer contributed to this report from the United Nations.
Amer Kohadzik, Associated Press
