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US Sanctions UN Palestinian Rights Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

Marco Rubio invoked a Trump-era order to punish her push for ICC prosecutions targeting U.S. officials alongside Israeli counterparts.

FILE - Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, talks to the media during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, July 11, 2023. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese gives a press conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark February 5, 2025. Ritzau Scanpix/Ida Marie Odgaard via REUTERS/File Photo
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Overview

  • The Treasury Department froze any assets Albanese held in the United States and prohibited her immediate family from entry under a February executive order penalizing ICC actions against the U.S. and Israel.
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused her of waging “political and economic warfare” by urging the International Criminal Court to seek arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
  • Albanese’s report “From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide” named nearly 50 corporations she alleges have profited from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.
  • U.S. officials have characterized her work as motivated by antisemitic bias and support for terrorism, declaring her unfit to serve as a UN human rights special rapporteur.
  • The sanctions underscore a growing diplomatic rift over UN human rights mechanisms and a U.S. effort to curb ICC jurisdiction perceived as infringing on national sovereignty.