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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">UN Special Rapporteur New Report Calls for ‘Dismantling of Israeli Settler-Colonial Occupation’</h1>October 18, 2022</div>
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UN Special Rapporteur on the
Situation of Human Rights in Palestine, Francesca Albanese. (Photo:
Hatim Kaghat, via Le Soir, Supplied)
<p><strong>By <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff" title="Display all articles for Palestine Chronicle Staff">Palestine Chronicle Staff</a></strong></p><p><span>The
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, has submitted her
much-anticipated report to the UN General Assembly, concluding that the
realization of the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to
self-determination requires dismantling Israeli settler-colonialism and
apartheid regime. </span></p>
<p><span>According to Albanese’s report, the scope of recent reports on
Israeli apartheid “excludes the experience of Palestinian refugees.”</span></p>
<p><span>“The recognition of Israeli apartheid,” the report stresses,
“must address the experience of the Palestinian people in its entirety
and in their unity as a people, including those who were displaced,
denationalized and dispossessed in 1947–1949”.</span></p>
<p><span>“For more than 55 years, the Israeli military occupation has
prevented the realization of the Palestinian right to self-determination
attempting to ‘de-Palestinianize’ (i.e., diminish the presence,
identity and resilience of Palestinians in) the occupied Palestinian
territory,” the report reads. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span>“This behaviour, reminiscent of a colonial past
that the international community firmly rejected decades ago, has become
more entrenched with the acquiescence of the international community
and failure to hold Israel accountable.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span>The Israeli occupation, the report continues, “has become
further entrenched with systematic and forced alteration by Israel of
the legal status, character and demographic composition of the occupied
Palestinian territory.”</span></p>
<p><span>In her report, Albanese calls for a paradigm shift to “overcome this situation”: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span>“This can only be resolved by respecting the
cardinal norm of peoples’ right to self-determination and the
recognition of the absolute illegality of the settler-colonialism and
apartheid that the prolonged Israeli occupation has imposed on the
Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory. Given the
settler-colonial nature of the occupation, its overall assessment must
change, and so the deliberations of the international community.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span>According to the report, </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span>“This starts with the recognition of the current
reality in the occupied Palestinian territory as that of an
intentionally acquisitive, segregationist and repressive regime, which
has enabled, for 55 years, the disenfranchisement of the Palestinians,
caging them into Bantustans of disrupted memories, broken ties and
hopes, pursuing the ultimate goal to consolidate minority rule over a
native majority on lands usurped through force, abusive and
discriminatory policies and pillaging of resources.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span>“Realizing the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to
self-determination requires dismantling once and for all the Israeli
settler-colonial occupation and its apartheid practices,” the report
concludes, noting that “International law is very clear in this regard.”</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span>“No solution can be just and fair, nor effective,
unless it centres on decolonization, allowing the Palestinian people to
freely determine their political will and pursue their social, economic
and cultural development, alongside their Israeli neighbours.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span>Albanese assumed the role of UN Special Rapporteur on</span> <span>May
1, following the end of Michael Lynk’s mandate. The highly-respected
Italian international law expert is scheduled to present her report at <a href="http://palestine.mei.columbia.edu/events-fall-2022/presentation-by-un-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese">Columbia</a> University in New York on October 24 and at the UN General Assembly on October 27. </span></p>
<p><em>(The Palestine Chronicle)</em></p>
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