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The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution by a majority vote on Wednesday demand an end to the occupation of the Palestinian territories on the Israeli side, with a majority of 124 votes in favor and only 14 against, but this time with numerous abstentions (43).
A two-thirds majority was required to support the resolution, which, like all Assembly resolutions, is non-binding and is in some ways historic, as it was introduced for the first time by the State of Palestine, which, despite its lack of state plenary status, has won several competitions in recent months.
While Muslim and African countries voted almost en masse for the resolution, the European Union once again demonstrated its disunity, voting in favor (including Spain and France), against (Hungary and the Czech Republic) and abstaining heavily (Germany, Italy, Holland, Sweden and Poland).
Israel and the US once again demonstrated their strong alliance In these votes, which were considered decisive for the Jewish state, Argentina, Paraguay and several Pacific island countries, which always vote with the United States, sided with it.
This new resolution today “calls upon Israel to immediately end its illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem (…), and to do so no later than twelve months after the adoption of this resolution,” although the Assembly resolution is not tied.
The text also demands that Israel return land confiscated from Palestinians, allow the return of those displaced by settlements and compensate those affected, and asks the international community not to recognize the territorial, legal or demographic consequences of the occupation of Palestinian lands.
But the wording of the resolution, this time very harsh towards Israel, did not convince such important countries as Canada, Australia, India, Switzerland, as well as numerous Europeans, who chose to abstain.
Consequently, the resolution adopted today achieved less consensus than the one voted last May in the same Assembly in favour of full membership of a Palestinian state in the UN: then 143 countries supported it and only nine voted against.
Presenting the resolution yesterday, Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riad Mansour said: “No occupying power should violate our inalienable rights. Justice is the only path to peace. Respect international law and do not sacrifice it for cold political calculations.”
Immediately afterwards, Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon spoke out, calling this historic moment for Palestine in multilateralism “a circus where terror is applauded.”
“Anyone who votes yes will be collaborating with violence and will be an insult to the very functioning of this institution (…) They are trying to isolate and destroy Israel, this resolution is delaying the hope for peace in the region,” Danon said.
For her part, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield continued to reject “unilateral solutions” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as “not realistic” because, in her view, “peace will only come through negotiations” between both sides in the context of a two-state solution.
It is a path that the United States has been trying unsuccessfully to implement for months through the previous ceasefire, while the figure already stands at more than 41,000 Gazans killed since October 7, according to the Palestinian enclave’s Health Ministry. EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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