UN Special Rapporteur: Israel can’t claim ‘right of self-defence’

Vanessa Beeley

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has said that Israel cannot claim the right of ‘self-defence’ under international law because Gaza is a territory which it occupies. Her comments came in a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia.

UN Special Rapporteur: Israel can’t claim ‘right of self-defence’

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