Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has delivered a scathing indictment of the international community’s role in enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Her newly released report, titled “Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime,” examines the complicity of 63 states and calls for a complete overhaul of the global multilateral system that allowed such atrocities to unfold.

Presenting the 24-page report to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) remotely from the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, Albanese described the situation in Gaza as a “live-streamed atrocity,” fueled by decades of political hypocrisy, military support, and diplomatic shielding.

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A Systemic Failure of Global Governance

Albanese accused the United States, European Union members, and allied nations of actively or indirectly enabling Israel’s “militarised apartheid and settler colonialism,” which she said has “metastasised into genocide — the ultimate crime against the Palestinian people.”

“Through unlawful actions and deliberate omissions, too many states have harmed, founded, and shielded Israel’s militarised apartheid,” Albanese said. “They allowed its settler colonial enterprise to become genocide, the ultimate crime against the indigenous people of Palestine.”

Her report denounces the “decades of moral and political failure” of global institutions designed to preserve peace — from the UN Security Council to major Western powers that have offered unconditional support to Israel while condemning other aggressors.

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United States Cast as Principal Enabler

The report singles out the United States as the chief enabler of the Gaza genocide, citing its repeated use of the UN veto — seven times since October 2023 — to block ceasefire resolutions and shield Israel from accountability.

Albanese noted that the U.S. provided diplomatic cover and vast military aid, including a $26.4 billion weapons package passed by Congress as Israel prepared to invade Rafah, an operation even Washington had previously deemed a “red line.”

“The United States’ protection of Israel has been both material and moral,” the report said, “and it has done so at the cost of international law and the very credibility of multilateralism.”

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Europe’s Role in the Gaza Catastrophe

The report also criticises European nations, particularly Germany and the United Kingdom, for their direct and indirect participation.
Germany, the world’s second-largest arms supplier to Israel during the Gaza war, exported “frigates, torpedoes, and other military hardware,” while the UK allegedly flew over 600 surveillance missions over Gaza since October 2023.

Albanese highlighted the hypocrisy of the European Union, which sanctioned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine while continuing trade and military cooperation with Israel.

“These double standards expose a colonial moral order,” she said, “where the lives of some are valued, and others are expendable.”

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Complicity Beyond the West

The report does not spare Arab and Muslim-majority states, many of which pursued normalisation deals with Israel through U.S.-brokered agreements while Gaza burned.

It specifically names Egypt for maintaining close security and energy cooperation with Israel and for closing the Rafah border crossing, effectively trapping civilians in Gaza.
“Regional complicity must be acknowledged,” Albanese wrote. “Inaction and collaboration with oppressors are forms of participation in genocide.”

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Attack on the UN’s Integrity

Albanese condemned the U.S. sanctions imposed on her earlier this year, which prevented her from travelling to New York to present the report in person.
“These sanctions constitute an assault on the United Nations itself — its independence, integrity, and very soul,” she said. “If left unchallenged, they will drive another nail into the coffin of multilateralism.”

Her remote address from South Africa — a symbolic setting linked to the legacy of anti-apartheid struggle — underscored her call for renewed global solidarity and accountability.

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A Call for a New Multilateralism

Albanese urged the international community to rebuild a “living multilateral framework” based on human dignity, justice, and equality — not power politics.
“The Gaza genocide has revealed an unprecedented chasm between peoples and their governments,” she said. “It betrayed the trust upon which global peace and security rest.”

Drawing parallels with historical moments when international law prevailed — such as sanctions against apartheid South Africa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and Portugal — Albanese insisted that justice for Palestine is both legally and morally achievable.

“We must move from rhetoric to reality,” she concluded. “From complicity to accountability, and from silence to justice.”