- Over a year into Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, you have issued only two standalone statements (on 23 May 2024 and 16 August 2024), led one joint statement (8 January 2024), and signed three others led by fellow Special Rapporteurs (on 12 October 2023, 27 November 2023, and 7 March 2024) regarding Palestine and Israel. Since you were appointed Special Rapporteur in August 2022, you have sent just one communication to Israel on 16 May 2024—over seven months into the ongoing Gaza genocide—while a similar communication to the State of Palestine took less than three months after 7 October 2023. By comparison, your predecessor sent four communications to Israel in 2021 alone, highlighting the critical situation that predated your tenure.
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