STORY: UN special rapporteur condemns Israel's "genocidal incitement" against Palestinians
SHOOTING TIME: March 27, 2024
DATELINE: March 28, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:01
LOCATION: GENEVA, Switzerland
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the Palace of Nations
2. various of the press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English): FRANCESCA ALBANESE, UN special rapporteur on situation of human rights in occupied Palestinian territory

STORYLINE:

Israel's "genocidal incitement" against Palestinians in Gaza transcends the scope of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory said in Geneva on Wednesday.
   
Speaking to journalists during the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Francesca Albanese said that Israel had used "humanitarian camouflage" to pursue nearly six months of intense bombardment in Gaza.

Albanese's comments came a day after she presented a report to the UN Human Rights Council, in which she said there were "reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide" had been met.

SOUNDBITE (English): FRANCESCA ALBANESE, UN special rapporteur on situation of human rights in occupied Palestinian territory
"Specifically, Israel has committed three acts of genocide with the requisite intent, killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. The flagrant and systematic slaughter of Palestinian civilians, the deployment of unlawful weaponry, the utter obliteration of vital civilian infrastructure, including the deliberate targeting of all Gaza's hospitals, and the man-made starvation of the Palestinian people transcend the realm of war crimes and crimes against humanity."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Geneva, Switzerland.
(XHTV)