Overview

• U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee publicly urged Israel to conduct a thorough investigation into the July beating death of 20-year-old Palestinian-American Saif al-Din Musalat by West Bank settlers.
• At a Bogotá summit, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese denounced the U.S. sanctions imposed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as unprecedented violations of UN privileges and immunities.
• The July 9 sanctions target Albanese for her genocide allegations in Gaza and for a report accusing American companies of profiting from Israel’s occupation and alleged human rights abuses.
• Both the United Nations and the European Union have urged Washington to revoke the measures against Albanese and judges of the International Criminal Court to preserve international human rights mechanisms.
• In Bogotá, Albanese called for concrete legal, diplomatic and economic steps to halt what she describes as genocidal actions in Gaza and to sever ties with Israel at all levels.