Open this photo in gallery: Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, at the European UN headquarters in Geneva in 2023. Albanese has alleged that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.Salvatore Di Nolfi/The Associated Press The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it is issuing sanctions against an independent investigator tasked with probing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, the latest effort by the United States to punish critics of Israel’s 21-month war in Gaza. The State Department’s decision to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, follows an...