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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Julian Borger in Washington

UN rights expert report to call for Israel arms embargo over ‘acts of genocide’

A young girl lies on the floor at the hospital following an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in al-Mughraqa, central Gaza Strip, on Monday.
A young girl lies on the floor at the hospital after an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in al-Mughraqa, central Gaza Strip, on Monday. Photograph: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

A UN human rights expert will deliver a report on Tuesday saying that Israel has carried out acts of genocide in Gaza and should be placed under an arms embargo.

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said in her report there were “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israel was carrying out three of the five acts defined as genocide: killing Palestinians, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, and “deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction” of the population in whole or in part.

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