A UN expert claimed Israel was systematically torturing Palestinians on a scale "that suggests collective vengeance and destructive intent", in a report released to media on Friday. Francesca Albanese, the UN's special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, said that since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, which triggered the Gaza war, Palestinians in custody "have been subjected to exceptionally ruthless physical and psychological abuse". AFP has sought a comment from Israel's mission in Geneva, which has previously accused Albanese of being motivated by an "obsessive, hate-driven agenda to delegitimise the state of Israel". Albanese...