UN special rapporteur criticises Israel for using humanitarian aid to 'mask atrocities'

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, said on Friday that Israel was using aid as a figleaf to carry out "crimes in Gaza”.

“Israel pretends to promote humanitarian solutions in order to continue its control of Gaza and sustain its systematic denial of life-saving humanitarian aid to the starving population in the besieged strip,” Albanese said. 

She said Israel's war on Gaza was being “camouflaged behind the language of aid, to divert international attention from legal accountability, in Israel’s attempt to dismantle the very principles upon which humanitarian law was built”.