UN General Assembly Adopts Resolution To End 1967 Israeli Occupation
The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine. The draft resolution, penned by Djibouti, Jordan, Mauritania, Qatar, Senegal, and Palestine, was approved on Tuesday with 151 votes in favour, 11 against, and 11 abstentions.
The resolution reaffirms the UN’s responsibility for the question of Palestine, calls for ending the 1967 Israeli occupation and upholding the two-state solution, and demands that Israel halt settlement activity and comply with international law.
It urges renewed negotiations and calls on states not to recognise border changes while increasing assistance to Palestine amid a severe humanitarian crisis.
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Recently, the UNSC approved Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, providing a legal UN mandate for the administration’s vision of how to move past the ceasefire and rebuild the war-ravaged Gaza Strip after two years of devastation.
The plan calls for an ‘International Stabilization Force’ to enter, demilitarize, and govern Gaza and a ‘Board of Peace’ to oversee the peace plan; however, the composition of the board is not clear.
Israel has killed over 70,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in its genocide in Gaza since October 2023.
During the same period, Israel also killed at least 1,085 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and detained thousands more.
