{"product_id":"gaza-genocide-lilian-naidoo-9798195211479","title":"Gaza Genocide: How the International System Failed Palestine: United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese","description":"Francesca Albanese, in her October 2025 report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, \u003ci\u003eGaza Genocide: A Collective Crime\u003c\/i\u003e, examines the repeated failure of the UN Security Council to impose coercive measures despite escalating warnings from the International Court of Justice. The UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine argues that Gaza became a defining example of a fundamental contradiction between two competing logics, the legal obligations imposed on states under international law, and the hegemonic interests of powerful states, particularly the United States, in shielding Israel from accountability. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlbanese's report is compelling because it demonstrates how four interconnected dimensions enabled the conflict through Third States; military assistance, humanitarian aid, economic cooperation, and diplomatic protection. Together, these forms of support contributed to sustaining the conditions in which Israel acted with impunity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Gaza Genocide: How the International System Failed Palestine\"\u003c\/i\u003e examines the legal obligations imposed on Third States under the Genocide Convention to prevent and punish genocide rather than enable it, together with the most powerful enforcement tools in international law available to the Security Council under the UN Charter. These include coercive measures such as ceasefires, humanitarian access, arms embargos, economic sanctions, International Criminal Court, international tribunals, and peacekeeping operations with limited use of force, that could have constrained the escalation of violence, prevented Israel from acting with impunity, and protected the Palestinian people under Israeli military occupation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a rapidly shifting international landscape, this \u003ci\u003e\"Quick Insight\"\u003c\/i\u003e book in the series \u003ci\u003ePalestine and the United Nations\u003c\/i\u003e is written for general readers interested in current affairs seeking an insider-informed entry into complex UN processes. For students of International Relations, the series offers an accessible yet authoritative analysis of one of the most urgent tests of the international system today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lilian Naidoo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798195211479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d","brand":"Lilian Naidoo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852862828799,"sku":"9798195211479","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gaza-genocide-lilian-naidoo-9798195211479","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}