In her report in March 2024 entitled “Anatomy of a genocide”, Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, concluded that there were “reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating that Israel has committed genocide has been met”.

In her October 2024 report entitled “Genocide as colonial erasure” she suggests that genocide should be seen as “integral and instrumental to the aim of full Israeli colonization of Palestinian land while removing as many Palestinians as possible.

“While the scale and nature of the ongoing Israeli assault against the Palestinians vary by area, the totality of the Israeli acts of destruction directed against the totality of the Palestinian people, with the aim of conquering the totality of the land of Palestine, is clearly identifiable. Patterns of violence against the group as a whole warrant the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) in order to cease, prevent and punish genocide in the whole of the occupied Palestinian territory.”

Following the presentation of that report to the UN General Assembly, Albanese participated in a press conference which is shown in the video below. In addition she has participated in many speeches and interviews on this important subject.