Actors, writers, musicians, intellectuals: the Italian cultural world is mobilizing in support of Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Palestinians sanctioned by the United States for documenting the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.

U.S. sanctions against U.N. expert Albanese mark an escalation in the international fallout over Israel's war in Gaza.

The United States has imposed sanctions on the United Nations official who investigates human rights abuses in occupied Palestinian territories, the latest effort by the Trump administration to punish those who criticize Israel's war in the Gaza Strip.