Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine, responded to Pope Francis’s call for an inquiry by pointing him to three UN reports investigating Israel’s “genocidal practices” in the past year, reports. In a post on X, Albanese said she hoped Pope Francis would find the time to read the two reports that she has written this year, as well as that from the UN Committee on Israeli Practices, “which also covers charges of genocide”. She also noted that the UN special rapporteur on the right to food has issued a report denouncing starvation/destruction of food sovereignty as a genocidal practice.