Blood on their hands: UN report exposes western complicity in Gaza

Presenting her report titled “The Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime” to the UN General Assembly, Albanese called out the countries complicit in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza and urged for a new model of multilateralism to prevent such crimes from happening again.

Due to U.S. sanctions, Albanese was unable to attend the session in New York in person and instead delivered her remarks via video from Cape Town, South Africa.

Albanese stated that Israel has left Gaza “suffocated, starved, and destroyed.” Her report scrutinizes the role of 63 states in supporting Israeli actions in Gaza and the West Bank and condemns the global multilateral system for “decades of moral and political failure within a colonial world order maintained through systemic complicity.”

“Through unlawful actions and deliberate inaction,” she wrote, “many states have shielded Israel’s military apartheid and enabled its settler-colonial enterprise to commit genocide — the ultimate crime against the Indigenous people of Palestine.”

According to the report, the genocide has been enabled through diplomatic protection in international forums, military cooperation — including arms sales and joint training programs that “feed the machinery of genocide” — and the weaponization of aid and trade by institutions such as the European Union.

Albanese highlighted the hypocrisy of the EU, which sanctioned Russia over the war in Ukraine but has continued trading with Israel during the assault on Gaza.

Her report provides a detailed analysis of how third states have facilitated the live-streamed atrocity, focusing particularly on the United States’ diplomatic cover for Israel. It notes that Washington has vetoed UN Security Council resolutions seven times and manipulated ceasefire negotiations, while other Western states have aided this process through abstentions, delays, and watered-down resolutions.

Arming the genocide

Despite mounting evidence of genocide, many countries have continued supplying weapons to Israel. The report points to the U.S. Congress’s approval of a $26.4 billion package “for Israel’s defense” — passed just as Israel was threatening to invade Rafah, which the Biden administration had labeled a “red line.”

It also singles out Germany as the second-largest arms supplier to Israel during the genocide — providing everything from corvettes to torpedoes — and the United Kingdom, which reportedly carried out over 600 surveillance missions over Gaza since the war began in October 2023.

The report further criticizes states that normalized relations with Israel under U.S.-brokered agreements, citing these deals as forms of complicity in the ongoing atrocities.

Albanese called on the UN General Assembly to confront the dangerous precedent set by the U.S. sanctions imposed on her earlier this year in retaliation for her criticism of Israel.

“These measures are an attack on the UN itself — its independence, its integrity, and its very soul,” she said. “If left unchallenged, they will drive another nail into the coffin of multilateralism.”

The report concludes that the genocide in Gaza has exposed an unprecedented rift between governments and their people, betraying the trust upon which global peace and security depend.

In her address to the General Assembly, Albanese urged the creation of a new form of multilateralism —

“Not a façade, but a living framework of rights and dignity — not for the few, but for all.”