A resounding majority of the UN General Assembly demands that Israeli occupation end

Within a year, an international body demands that Israel withdraw its illegitimate presence in the Palestinian lands.

Palestine praised the unanimous adoption of a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) demanding that Israel cease its unlawful occupation of the Palestinian lands within a year as “historic.”

On Wednesday, the nonbinding resolution was approved 124–14, with 43 nations voting nay.

Israel must “put an immediate end to its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which constitutes a wrongful act of a continuing character entailing its international responsibility, and do so no later than 12 months,” according to a UNGA demand.

Additionally, it demanded that Israel compensate the Palestinians for losses brought on by the occupation.

Since every sovereign nation on Earth is a member of the UNGA, which is tasked with promoting “respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,” Wednesday’s vote highlights the strength of the global resistance to Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

The UN’s highest court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), issued an advisory opinion that concluded Israel’s existence in the Palestinian territories is illegal and has to end. The resolution supported this conclusion.

In July, the court declared that Israel is misusing its position as an occupying force and emphasized the illegality of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Over 41,250 Palestinians have died as a result of Israel’s horrific bombardment on Gaza, which coincides with the UNGA vote. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Israel must take action to stop genocide in Gaza and let sufficient humanitarian aid to enter the region.

Along with Israel, the United States, Czechia, Hungary, Argentina, and a few small Pacific island states opposed the UNGA vote on Wednesday. The United States professes to be pursuing a two-state solution to the conflict.

Palestine, a permanent observer state at the UN, presented the resolution.

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, applauded the resolution and called on all nations to exert pressure on Israel to follow it.

“Our Palestinian people, who are facing a comprehensive aggression and genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, including Jerusalem, are given new hope by the international consensus over this resolution to achieve their aspirations of freedom and independence and establishing a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital,” stated Abbas.

The profession’s beginnings

During the 1967 war, Israel took control of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. In 1980, it annexed the entire holy city.

It is against international law to take land by force.

Additionally, Israel has been constructing settlements in the West Bank, which are currently the residence of hundreds of thousands of Israelis, in defiance of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids the occupying force from relocating “parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”

The majority of people around the world believe that the occupation is unlawful.

However, Washington does not apply this same criteria to other crises, such as the Russian occupation of parts of Ukraine, and instead contends that Palestinians and Israelis should discuss a resolution to the concerns without outside pressure.

France, Finland, Mexico, and other US allies supported the measure on Wednesday. Canada, the UK, and the Ukraine all abstained.

The abstention was denounced by the advocacy group Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East as “a cowardly refusal to stand up for international law and Palestinian freedom.”

The group added on social media, “Canada just abstained, but all states are obliged to help bring an end to Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories as soon as possible.”

Source: Al Jazeera

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