An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territory.

UN special rapporteur on Palestine reacts to latest sanctions imposed by the US government over her latest report denouncing Israel's 'economy of genocide'

The United Nations has strongly criticized the US decision to impose sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

U.S. sanctions against U.N. expert Albanese mark an escalation in the international fallout over Israel's war in Gaza.

The United States has imposed sanctions on the United Nations official who investigates human rights abuses in occupied Palestinian territories, the latest effort by the Trump administration to punish those who criticize Israel's war in the Gaza Strip.

Francesca Albanese, the U.N. expert on Palestinian rights, faces U.S. sanctions affecting her movements and engagements. Despite asset freezes, Albanese plans to continue her work, challenging Israel's treatment of Palestinians.

On July 9, 2025, the US State Department sanctioned Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories. As indicated in the DOS statement, “Albanese has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West.”

The Italian human rights lawyer, who has over two decades' experience, just published a report on big corporations 'getting rich out of the genocide'

The government's silence on the case of Francesca Albanese, the Italian-born United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories who has been placed under US sanctions for alleged antisemitism in denouncing Israel's alleged "genocide" in Gaza,