Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, has criticised the “cynicism” of Western journalists for their “frustrating and, at times, traumatic” approach to covering Israel’s offensive against Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

“After 14 months of genocide my conclusion is that many of my Western fellows do not see the Palestinians, as others in the Global South, as fellow humans,” Albanese said in a post on social media.

“Often out of deep-rooted/unacknowledged racism, they pontificate about [countries], history and people they neither know nor understand, without realising the harm they do,” she said.