‘I don’t mean to be rude, but can you really keep a straight face as you ask me this question?’

A video is circulating online from November 2023, when Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, addressed the National Press Club of Australia on why previous approaches in Israel and Palestine have failed, and answered a question about Israel claiming not to have been targeting civilians after telling them to evacuate.

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