UN expert urges immediate trade and arms embargo on Israel

UN expert urges immediate trade and arms embargo on Israel Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, has renewed her demand for governments to halt trade with Israel and stop supplying it with weapons. Albanese said states should have acted when others first warned them about Israel’s conduct. She was responding to a former Israeli ambassador to France who urged the public to recognise that there are “genocidaires” in the Israeli…