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U.S. Sanctions U.N. Gaza Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, Prompting Calls for Reversal

Assets frozen; visa revoked; U.S. entry barred; sanctions have drawn criticism from the U.N. human rights office, Amnesty International, other rights groups warning that the measures undermine U.N. investigator neutrality.

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Overview

  • The sanctions invoke a February executive order by President Donald Trump targeting those aiding the International Criminal Court’s probe of Israel, freezing Albanese’s U.S. assets, revoking her visa and barring her entry.
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Albanese of brazen antisemitism, supporting terrorism and collaborating with the ICC to seek arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  • In a July report, Albanese accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and implicated major firms such as BlackRock and Vanguard in profiting from what she called a “genocide economy.”
  • U.N. High Commissioner Volker Türk urged the United States to revoke the sanctions, warning that punitive measures against special rapporteurs threaten the independence of U.N. human rights monitoring.
  • Amnesty International joined U.N. bodies in denouncing the move as an attack on the neutrality of independent experts and urged Washington to engage in dialogue rather than punitive actions.