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With an election looming, will politicians finally listen to the majority who want to divest from Israeli arms companies, asks Oslo academic Sindre Bangstad

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied territories, calls for practical actions and warns against distracting ‘attention from where it should be: the genocide’

An independent U.N. investigator and outspoken critic of Israel’s policies in Gaza says the sanctions recently imposed on her by the Trump administration will seriously impact her life and work

For the past few weeks the headlines about Gaza have focused on the hundreds of people who have been killed while queueing for food. The aid distribution system put in place in May, backed by the US and Israel and run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, has proved to be…

The United States has imposed sanctions against the UN’s special rapporteur in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese. It’s an unprecedented situation. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, cited as the reason her direct engagement with the International Criminal Court “in efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute nationals of…

Many across the world are rounding on Israel’s war on Gaza, with states in the ‘Global South’ leading the way.

Israel has refused to renew visas for the heads of at least three United Nations agencies in Gaza

It comes as little ­surprise that the Trump administration is now trying to silence yet ­another pro-Palestinian voice, that of UN special…

The UN's unflinching expert on Palestinian affairs Francesca Albanese said Tuesday that Washington's sanctions following her criticism of the White House's stance on Gaza are a "violation" of her immunity.