Press Release: Veritas Press C.I.C.
Author: Kamran Faqir
Article Date Published: 17 Sept 2025 at 16:45 GMT
Category: Middle East | Palestine-Gaza | Rally Behind Albanese
Source(s): Veritas Press C.I.C. | Multi News Agencies
Global Experts Defend UN Rapporteur’s Gaza Report:
More than 20 leading arms trade experts have issued a powerful statement in support of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, whose latest report exposes what she calls the “economy of genocide” in Gaza. The experts hailed her work as “forensic, detailed, accurate and extremely important” while denouncing what they described as “unprecedented and unjustified attacks” on Albanese by the US and Israeli governments.
The statement, released by Shadow World Investigations, stressed that governments should stop trying to discredit the report and instead enforce arms export controls that would halt all arms transfers to Israel as long as the war continues.
The Report: Corporate Complicity In Gaza’s Killing Fields.
Albanese’s report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, highlights the role of weapons manufacturers, tech giants, and financial institutions in facilitating Israel’s assault on Gaza.
It identifies Israeli firms such as Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, alongside Western arms behemoths Lockheed Martin and Leonardo, as central suppliers. The report also names technology corporations, Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet, for providing surveillance and targeting tools that directly assist military operations.
“The trade in weapons counts its profits in billions while its losses are measured in human lives,” the experts said.
They noted that over 1,650 private companies are involved in producing a single weapons system, the F-35 fighter jet, exposing what they call a vast “web of intermediaries” spanning logistics, energy, finance, consultancies, and robotics suppliers.
“Mafia-Style Intimidation” – US Sanctions On Albanese:
In July, the United States imposed sanctions on Albanese, an unprecedented move against a UN Special Rapporteur, accusing her of pushing “illegitimate and shameful efforts” to implicate US and Israeli officials and corporations at the International Criminal Court.
Albanese responded by calling the sanctions “mafia-style intimidation techniques”, telling Reuters:
“It changes my life … it affects deeply my private life, that of my family.”
UN human rights bodies, the International Commission of Jurists, and dozens of NGOs condemned Washington’s move, warning it threatens the independence of all UN human rights experts.
Rising International Pressure On Israel:
Albanese’s report comes amid intensifying calls for accountability:
- EU Response – The European Commission has proposed suspending trade concessions with Israel and sanctioning far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, citing breaches of human rights commitments under the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
- UN Human Rights Council – Albanese told the council in Geneva that Gaza has become “apocalyptic,” calling Israel’s actions “one of the cruellest genocides in modern history.”
- Human Rights Inquiry – An independent UN inquiry in September confirmed that Israel’s war on Gaza constitutes genocide, echoing Albanese’s findings.
- US Criticism at Home – Democratic senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley accused Israel of systematic ethnic cleansing, directly contradicting the Biden and Trump administrations’ support for Israel’s war policy.
“Profits Rise, Palestinians Die”:
The experts warned that arms manufacturers and their financiers have seen soaring profits while Palestinians endure catastrophic losses:
“These companies allow their products to be battle-tested in occupied Palestine and then market them worldwide based on the devastation caused,” the joint statement read.
They condemned what they called the “active participation” of Western governments and corporations in enabling genocide.
What’s At Stake:
The battle over Albanese’s report is no longer just about Gaza; it raises fundamental questions about:
- Corporate liability for war crimes and genocide
- The credibility of international law, if states punish the investigators instead of the perpetrators
- The future of arms trade regulation, amid evidence of systematic violations of the Arms Trade Treaty and the EU Common Position
As Albanese told the UN in Geneva:
“What I expose is not a list; it is a system. And that system must be dismantled.”
Conclusion: A System Of Profit, Complicity, And Silence.
Francesca Albanese’s report, and the fierce backlash it has triggered, exposes more than just the brutality of Israel’s war on Gaza. It shines a light on a global system where war has become an industry, in which governments, corporations, financiers, and technologists are not bystanders but active profiteers.
The revelations of over 1,650 companies embedded in a single weapons platform like the F-35 underline the scale of the complicity. Every bolt, circuit, and algorithm links a chain of corporate profit to the destruction of Palestinian lives and communities. This is not accidental; it is a business model, a machinery of violence lubricated by shareholder gains and state subsidies.
The US decision to sanction Albanese, rather than confront the companies and governments implicated in her findings, represents a dangerous precedent: shooting the messenger to protect the merchants of death. If left unchallenged, it signals that international law can be bent or buried when it collides with entrenched power and profit.
Meanwhile, the European Union’s tentative moves towards sanctions show how fractured the West remains, caught between growing public outrage and elite deference to Israel’s military and its corporate backers. For every Spain or Ireland demanding an embargo, a Germany or Hungary is shielding Israel from accountability.
The stakes are far larger than the fate of one UN rapporteur. At issue is whether international law will mean anything when the victims are Palestinians, and whether corporations that knowingly enable atrocities will ever face consequences. As Albanese herself told the UN Human Rights Council:
“What I expose is not a list; it is a system. And that system must be dismantled.” Until governments act on that call, by cutting off arms, technology, financing, and political cover, Gaza will remain a laboratory for “battle-tested” weapons, and a graveyard where profits are measured in billions, and losses in human lives.
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