UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, stated in Madrid on Wednesday that there is a genocide from the river to the sea against the Palestinian people. She criticized the international community's complicity with Israel and urged Europe to counter US sanctions.
Albanese visited the Reina Sofía Museum in the morning, where she admired Picasso's Guernica and noted that the work shows a destruction similar to what has been seen in Gaza. She said there is no real ceasefire in the Strip, but that those in power are pushing to turn away from the conflict.
In the afternoon she took part in an event at the Círculo de Bellas Artes alongside Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Carlos Bardem and Olga Rodríguez. There she denounced the European Union's complicity with Israel and called for an end to the association agreement between the two sides. She also welcomed President Pedro Sánchez's support for her and for the International Criminal Court prosecutors against sanctions imposed by the United States.
The rapporteur, author of the book When the World Sleeps, recalled that Israel has killed more than 72,600 people in Gaza since October 2023. She warned about what she described as necrocapitalism and the military doctrine applied in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.
