Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territory, said sanitised jargon used by the Israeli military during its onslaught against civilians in Gaza is designed to “camouflage” killing.

Albanese said in a post on X that Israel’s use of terms from international humanitarian law — such as “evacuation orders” and “safe zones” — “create the illusion that its military operations ensure protection of civilians”.

The reality could not be further from the truth, she said.

“This ‘humanitarian camouflage’ has de facto turned Gaza into a place ‘without civilians’, where everything is destroyable & everyone is killable.”