• The Spanish government awarded the Order of Civil Merit to UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her work documenting and denouncing violations of international law in Gaza.
  • Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez presented the award in Madrid, calling Albanese ‘a voice that upholds the conscience of the world’.
  • Albanese has described Israel’s military operations in Gaza as genocide and criticized the international community for failing to prevent serious human rights violations.
  • She has faced arrest threats in Germany and US sanctions for urging the ICC to investigate American and Israeli companies.
  • Sánchez asked the EU to block US sanctions against Albanese, calling them a ‘worrying precedent’.
  • Albanese warned of an ‘apocalypse’ and the ‘Gaza doctrine’ eroding international law, stating the ceasefire in Gaza is meaningless.

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