Albanese: Trump's plan for Gaza is "the worst insult I've seen in my life."

The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, described the peace plan for Gaza proposed by US President Donald Trump as "the worst insult I have ever seen in my life."

She added in an interview with the British newspaper iPaper: "I do not trust this peace process because I do not trust the people responsible for it. I do not trust an agreement based on violating international law."

She emphasized that Israel "does not want the Palestinians in Gaza, and it has been clear about that before," and criticized the agreement being called a ceasefire because what is happening is not "a war between two states and two armies, but an assault on an occupied people held in a ghetto since 1948."

The agreement is expected to lead to the continuation of "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from the enclave, according to what the newspaper's correspondent in South Africa, Joe Walsh, reported from Albanese.

The UN official - who took office in March 2022 - has faced smear campaigns and attacks due to her positions emphasizing the need to end the Israeli occupation and achieve just solutions to the Palestinian issue.

Albanese - who works on behalf of the UN but does not speak for it - specifically faced sharp criticism from the Israeli government and some of its allies for accusing Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of aggression on Gaza on October 7, 2023.

The Italian lawyer likened Israel's participation in the ceasefire agreement to the participation of "the Hutus in the report on the future of the Tutsis after the genocide in Rwanda," adding: "Can you imagine discussing the future of the Jewish people with the Nazis? It is a terrible insult."

The article noted that Brent Bozell, the new nominee from the Trump administration for the ambassador position in South Africa, stated that one of his goals is "to pressure South Africa to end the lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice."

Albanese responded: "Imagine how unfortunate it is for a state to base its foreign policy on destroying the multilateral international system and preventing victims from obtaining justice after genocide. How sad it is that the United States has lowered itself to this level."

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last July the imposition of sanctions on the special rapporteur, condemning her criticisms of Washington and Israel in light of the war in the Gaza Strip.

These sanctions prevented Albanese from accessing her office in New York, forcing her to continue her work from South Africa, where she compared the US sanctions to "mafia methods" in Italy, her birthplace, where gangs "smear someone's reputation... to deter them from continuing to engage in justice issues."

The UN rapporteur concluded in the interview that "it is simply unreasonable for a state referred to two international courts on charges of genocide and war crimes to have the authority to determine the future of the Palestinians."