The UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese has denounced German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock's defense of Israel's bombing of Palestinian civilian displacement sites in Gaza, warning of the legal repercussions of supporting a state that commits international crimes.

The rapporteur expressed her concern about Germany's position on Israel and Palestine and its "serious consequences."
"As a UN Independent Expert, I am deeply concerned by the stance Germany is taking on Israel/Palestine, and its dangerous implications and consequences," she said on X. "Minister Baerbock should be invited to provide the evidence of what she claims, and then explain how "civilian objects losing protected status" justify the massacres Israel is committing in Gaza and elsewhere."
Albanese added, "Has Germany decided to stand with a State that is committing international crimes, it is a political choice, but it has also legal implications. May justice prevail where politics abhorrently failed."