UN expert calls on states to end trade relations with Israel

A UN expert on July 3rd urged states to introduce an arms embargo and end financial and trade relations with Israel, due to the country’s military operations in Gaza, Middle East Eye via Reuters reported.

In an address to the UN Human Rights Council, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, stressed that Israel is guilty of “one of the cruellest genocides in modern history.”

Meanwhile, Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital director, Dr Marwan Sultan, died in an Israeli strike which hit his Gaza City home, according to the BBC on July 2nd.

Middle East Eye via Reuters, BBC