World gave Israel 'licence to torture Palestinians': UN expert

Francesca Albanese, the UN's special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, alleged that "torture has effectively become state policy" in Israel. "Israel has effectively been given a licence to torture Palestinians, because most of your governments, your ministers, have allowed it," she said, as she presented her latest report to the UN Human Rights Council. Albanese has faced harsh criticism, allegations of anti-Semitism and demands for her removal...