Albanese told reporters outside the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday that the EU's continued failure to suspend the trade agreement with Israel was "very dangerous," noting that Germany and Italy opposed the move.
She added that the continued arms trade and research cooperation with Israel through the Horizon program reveals that the problem is not in the "lack of European efforts," but in the "contribution of the European Union itself to the destruction."
Regarding the two-state solution, Albanese said that the political debate about it is "currently pointless," explaining that the priority should be to stop the "ongoing death" in Gaza and the West Bank, where Palestinians are experiencing "ethnic cleansing with unprecedented violence for the past eighty years," as she put it.
Albanese criticized the humanitarian situation in Gaza, stating that 80% of the remaining population, approximately 1.9 million people, are "flooded and homeless," questioning the wisdom of "destroying everything to satisfy Israel's thirst for revenge." She added, "I am ashamed of Europe, which acts so greedily and wants to sit at the negotiating table like a vulture; they should be ashamed."
The UN rapporteur indicated that US President Donald Trump's plan on Gaza is "incompatible with international law," after the Security Council adopted Resolution 2803 on Monday evening, which welcomed Trump's 20-point plan to end the war.
Israeli settlers committed 7,154 attacks in the West Bank during the two years of the Israeli war of extermination on Gaza, resulting in the martyrdom of 33 Palestinians and the displacement of 33 population centers, according to data from the Palestinian government’s Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission up to October 5th.
While attacks by the army and settlers together have led to the martyrdom of at least 1,076 Palestinians, and the injury of about 10,760, in addition to the arrest of more than 20,500 others, as of Tuesday, according to official data.
The ceasefire agreement ended an Israeli genocidal war on Gaza that began on October 7, 2023, leaving more than 69,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 170,000 wounded, most of them children and women, with reconstruction estimated by the United Nations to cost about $70 billion.
In response to a question about whether the US sanctions had affected her life, Albanese said: "Not as much as the suffering they inflict on the Palestinians, but it affects more than anything you can imagine."
On July 9, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Albanese had been added to the sanctions list for her efforts to push the International Criminal Court to take action against the United States and Israel.
The following day, the UN Human Rights Council's Special Procedures Committee strongly condemned the US decision to impose sanctions on Albanese.