Hamas has said that “the United States’ imposition of sanctions on the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine, Francesca Albanese, is a blatant expression of the US administration’s blatant bias toward Zionist war crimes”, Al Jazeera reports.

“The punitive measures taken by the United States against institutions and individuals performing their professional and moral role (…) most recently Albanese, undermine the foundations of international and humanitarian law and encourage the occupation’s war criminal leaders to continue their brutal crimes,” Hamas said in a statement published on Telegram.

The group called on the US administration to reverse its policies “which position it as a de facto in the campaigns to kill children and women and destroy civilian life in the Gaza Strip”.