{"id":2187,"date":"2026-03-24T10:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:53:26","slug":"albanese-says-palestinians-cannot-be-saved-without-massive-intervention-to-stop-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/albanese-says-palestinians-cannot-be-saved-without-massive-intervention-to-stop-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanese says Palestinians cannot be saved without &#8216;massive intervention&#8217; to stop Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A UN special rapporteur on Tuesday said Palestinians in Gaza cannot be saved without a &#8220;massive intervention&#8221; to halt Israel&#8217;s actions, urging states to cut economic, military and financial ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;How come the member states continue to engage with Israel?&#8221; Francesca Albanese, the rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, questioned during a press briefing and reminded that states have obligations &#8220;not to transfer weapons to a state that is committing war crimes&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albanese warned that Gaza represents &#8220;just the beginning of this new escalatory phase of erasure of Palestinians,&#8221; and added that similar patterns are already seen beyond Gaza, pointing to what happens in Lebanon and Iran. According to the rapporteur, &#8220;it will not stay there&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have no hope whatsoever that the Palestinians in Gaza will be saved if there is no massive intervention to stop Israel,&#8221; she said, underlining that &#8220;the most peaceful way to stop Israel is to cut ties, economic ties, military ties and financial ties.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-wp-embed is-provider-real-news-real-impact wp-block-embed-real-news-real-impact\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TDG0znLvYQ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/baby-tortured-by-israel-soldiers-to-force-father-to-supply-info-they-thought-he-had\/\">Baby tortured by Israel soldiers to force father to supply info they thought he had<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Baby tortured by Israel soldiers to force father to supply info they thought he had&#8221; &#8212; REAL NEWS,REAL IMPACT\" src=\"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/baby-tortured-by-israel-soldiers-to-force-father-to-supply-info-they-thought-he-had\/embed\/#?secret=aYtZHlZAEV#?secret=TDG0znLvYQ\" data-secret=\"TDG0znLvYQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Albanese also said the situation is &#8220;worsening&#8221; despite a ceasefire in Gaza, noting that since the beginning of the ceasefire, Israel has killed 650 Palestinians in Gaza, while many remain in tents yet continue to be targeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She stressed that the worsening conditions are &#8220;not a coincidence&#8221; but &#8220;intentional,&#8221; pointing to continued destruction, starvation, and suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rapporteur also detailed abuses against detainees in her latest report on torture and genocide, including &#8220;severe beatings, intentional bone breaking, prolonged shackling and blindfolding, sleep deprivation, starvation, denial of medical care, sexual abuse, rape,&#8221; affecting men, women and children, and said: \u201cAn unprecedented number of detainees have died in custody.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to Israeli criticism of her report, she said: &#8220;Israel can say what it wants. It still needs to be held accountable. Its leaders deserve to be in The Hague.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albanese, launching her report on Monday at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, said Israel &#8220;has effectively been given a license to torture Palestinians because most of your governments, your ministers, have allowed it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said the report documented the \u201congoing genocide against the Palestinian people,\u201d highlighting \u201cIsrael&#8217;s widespread and systematic use of torture, alongside the creation of a torturous environment against Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, between October 2023 and January 2026, Israeli forces arrested more than 18 500 Palestinians, including children, while nearly 100 died in custody and about 4 000 remain forcibly disappeared. Thousands have been detained without charge and held in inhuman conditions, the report said. &#8211; AA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UN special rapporteur on Tuesday said Palestinians in Gaza cannot be saved without a &#8220;massive intervention&#8221; to halt Israel&#8217;s actions, urging states to cut economic, military and financial ties. &#8220;How come the member states continue to engage with Israel?&#8221; Francesca Albanese, the rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, questioned during a press briefing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,205],"tags":[14,15,16,24,19,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-2187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conflict-zones","8":"category-secondary-story","9":"tag-gaza","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-palestine","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-war-crimes","14":"tag-zionist"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}