"Time to Cut Ties with Israel": U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Gaza Hospital Bombing

Israel's war on Gaza is the deadliest conflict for journalists in recorded history. In an attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza Monday, Israel killed five more journalists in addition to over a dozen others. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the hospital attack was a "tragic mishap," but just hours later, Israeli forces killed a sixth journalist. "There is a pattern of targeting and killing journalists that lets us think that there is an intention," says Francesca Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory.

As countries prepare for the U.N. General Assembly, Albanese notes the complicity of Western states in the genocide in Gaza, particularly the United States. "There has been a tolerance of Israel's impunity for decades," says Albanese. "However, the United States is the single most important factor of crisis in the United Nations."

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