UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is reportedly slated to speak at the upcoming Al Jazeera Forum Conference in Doha, Qatar, the same event that is expected to feature Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
As of Thursday, Albanese is listed on Al Jazeera's English-language site as a speaker during the forum's third session on its first day, during a panel titled: "The Palestinian Cause in a World Moving Toward Multipolarity."
Others on the panel include former International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Near and Middle East Regional Legal Coordinator Omar Makki, and Director of Stockholm's International Humanitarian Law Centre, Stepehen Wilkinson.
'Albanese exploits her UN position'
On Wednesday, Open Source Intelligence investigator Eitan Fischberger noted in an X/Twitter post that Albanese's presence was listed only on Al Jazeera's Arabic forum page, not on the English one.
"Al Jazeera tried to hide her, but I found out," Fischberger wrote in his post.
Danny Danon, Israel's Ambassador to the UN, responded to the reveal in his own X post on Thursday, calling Albanese's inclusion a "profound failure" of the system.
"Francesca Albanese exploits her position at the UN to echo terrorist propaganda and antisemitism," Danon's post read. "And if what she has done so far was not enough — she is expected to speak at the Al Jazeera forum alongside the chief murderer who heads the Hamas terrorist organization, Khaled Mashaal."
"It is absurd that a representative of the United Nations chooses to stand on the same stage with terrorists whose hands are stained with blood. This is a moral disgrace and a profound failure of the system that is supposed to “protect human rights.”