UN rights expert report to call for Israel arms embargo over ‘acts of genocide’

Special rapporteur will tell human rights council Israel's actions reveal an intent to physically destroy Palestinians as a group'

A UN human rights expert will deliver a report on Tuesday saying that Israel has carried out acts of genocide in Gaza and should be placed under an arms embargo.

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said in her report there were reasonable grounds" to believe that Israel was carrying out three of the five acts defined as genocide: killing Palestinians, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction" of the population in whole or in part.