Sri Lanka, March 31 -- It is now 'official': Israel's ongoing military operations in Gaza as well as its entire history of occupation of Palestinian territory has been found, by an UN-appointed expert investigator, to fit the description of the crime of genocide.

Equally serious, the meticulously formulated report by UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine, Dr. Francesca Albanese, warns that there are other states that "have been complicit in the Gaza Genocide." But this Italian international lawyer with a wealth of rights monitoring experience does not name any "complicit" States.

The UN pronouncement on genocide being committed in what is the "Holy Land" for three world religions, grimly echoes that Land's ancient ambience ...