UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese says it is “outrageous” to blame Palestinians for the “massacre” committed by Israel at a UN-run school sheltering displaced people in Gaza on the basis of “unevidenced ‘human shielding’ accusations”, Al Jazeera reports.

Albanese said Israel’s claims that Hamas operatives hide in humanitarian zones are part of “Israel’s logic of genocide”.

Responding to a statement by the German Foreign Office repeating the Israeli line that “Hamas uses civilians as human shields” despite no evidence having been provided to substantiate the claim, Albanese said she could not believe “how far Germany seems ready to go to protect Israel’s genocidal campaign”.