In accordance with the Hague Group, states assembly in Bogota will announce “concrete actions to implement worldwide legislation by means of coordinated state motion — to finish the genocide and guarantee justice and accountability.”
Vowing to not be silenced within the face of US sanctions towards her, UN Particular Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says the 30-nation Hague Group assembly in Colombia is “essentially the most important political growth prior to now 20 months,” the Guardian reported.
The emergency assembly, from July 15 to 16, in Bogota has been reconvened “in response to Israel’s ongoing and escalating violations of worldwide legislation within the Occupied Palestinian Territory, together with the crime of genocide, and can deal with coordinated authorized and diplomatic measures to carry them to an finish,” in response to the group’s web site.
Honored to hitch the #HagueGroup on the Emergency Assembly on Gaza, known as by Colombia & South Africa, 15–16 July in Bogotá.
The Hague Group opens the door to a special future — rooted in legislation and accountability. Will different States stroll by means of it? They need to: they’ve an… https://t.co/57TkEAs7wL pic.twitter.com/IGyiq9BD8q
— Francesca Albanese, UN Particular Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) June 12, 2025
Albanese, who will deal with the assembly, mentioned it comes at “an existential hour” for Israel and the Palestinian individuals.
“For too lengthy, worldwide legislation has been handled as non-compulsory – utilized selectively to these perceived as weak, ignored by these appearing because the highly effective. This double customary has eroded the very foundations of the authorized order. That period should finish,” she is going to say in Bogotá, in response to the Guardian.
The particular rapporteur emphasised that “The world will keep in mind what we, states and people, did on this second – whether or not we recoiled in concern or rose in defence of human dignity.”
Time to ‘Act’
She careworn that on the convention, the “rising variety of states” could have the chance to “break the silence and revert to a path of legality by lastly saying: sufficient. Sufficient impunity. Sufficient empty rhetoric. Sufficient exceptionalism. Sufficient complicity.”
Francesca Albanese, Palestine Action, and the End of International Law
Albanese said that the time has come “to behave in pursuit of justice and peace – grounded in rights and freedoms for all, and never mere privileges for some, on the expense of the annihilation of others.”
She hoped “extra states will align their insurance policies with these basic rules as we transfer ahead on this existential hour – for each the Palestinian and the Israeli individuals, and the integrity of the worldwide authorized order itself.”
US Sanctions
Final Wednesday, the US authorities imposed sanctions on Albanese for what Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned have been her “illegitimate and shameful efforts to immediate ICC motion towards U.S. and Israeli officers, corporations, and executives.”
Albanese has documented the Israeli extermination of Palestinians within the Gaza Strip in a number of studies and known as for the prosecution of the events and people concerned.
My final report is downloadable on Rainews’ platform: fairly a growth.
Thank to the conscientious journalists who’ve labored laborious, from throughout the system, to have my findings and analyses land on mainstream platforms throughout this genocide. https://t.co/SvT8Cznzoc pic.twitter.com/8qHj0BjFIb— Francesca Albanese, UN Particular Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) July 15, 2025
In accordance with the Hague Group, states assembly in Bogota will announce “concrete actions to implement worldwide legislation by means of coordinated state motion — to finish the genocide and guarantee justice and accountability.”
The Hague Group was established in The Hague on January 31, 2025 — by the states of Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa, “in response to the grave violations of worldwide legislation within the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
Ongoing Genocide in Gaza
Since Israel’s reneging on the ceasefire on March 18, it has killed and wounded hundreds of Palestinians all through the Gaza Strip by means of a bloody and ongoing aerial bombardment.
On October 7, 2023, following a Palestinian Resistance operation in southern Israel, the Israeli army launched a genocidal battle towards the Palestinians, killing over 57,000, wounding greater than 137,000, with over 14,000 nonetheless lacking.
At the least 11 Palestinians have been killed on Tuesday in Israeli airstrikes focusing on varied areas throughout the Gaza Strip, because the genocidal battle waged by Israel, with US help, continues unabated for the 648th day.
The Emergency and Ambulance Service reported that 5 Palestinians… pic.twitter.com/ZfzwBKlkjn
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) July 15, 2025
Regardless of ordinary condemnation by many nations all over the world of the Israeli genocide, little has been carried out to carry Israel accountable.
Israel is at the moment below investigation for the crime of genocide by the Worldwide Court docket of Justice, whereas accused battle criminals — together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — are actually formally needed by the Worldwide Prison Court docket.
The Israeli genocide has been largely defended, supported, and financed by Washington and some different Western powers.
(The Palestine Chronicle)