UN General Assembly demands ceasefire in Gaza and backs UN agency helping Palestinian refugees
United Nations – The UN general meeting has approved resolutions on Wednesday with overwhelming majority They demand an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and supporting UN agency for Palestinian refugees that has prohibited Israel.
The voices in the world organization consisting of 193 countries were 158 against 9, with 13 abstentions to now demand a cease-fire, and 159 against 9 with 11 abstentions to support the organization known as UNRWA. The votes culminated in two days full of speeches in which the overwhelming majority were called to end the fourteen months war between Israel and the militant Hamas group.
Israel and his closest ally, the United States, formed a small minority who spoke and voted against the resolutions.
Although the resolutions of the Security Council are legally binding, the resolutions of the General Meeting are not, although they do reflect the world population. There are no vetos in the meeting.
The Palestinians and their supporters went to the general meeting after the general meeting The US has spoken their veto about a resolution of the security council On November 20, an immediate cease-fire in Gaza demanded. It was supported by the fourteen other members of the Council, but the US objected that it was not related to an immediate release of hostages taken by Hamas militants during their military mission. attack on Israel on October 7, 2023who caused the war.
The language of the resolution adopted by the meeting is the same as the text of the resolution that a veto has been pronounced, which requires that “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire is respected by all parties”, while also the “Require the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.”
The second resolution supports the Mandate of the UNRWA, which was established by the general meeting in 1949.
It regrets Laws adopted by the Israeli parliament On October 28, UNRWA’s activities in the Palestinian territories will be banned, a measure that will take effect in 90 days. And it repeats the statements of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that the UNRWA is “the backbone” of all humanitarian operations in Gaza and that no organization can replace them.
Israel claims that about a dozen of the 13,000 UNRWA employees in Gaza participated in the attacks of Hamas on Israel who have accelerated the war. Recently it has provided the UN with more than 100 names of UNRWA employees are accused of having militant ties.
The resolution that was adopted on Wednesday calls on the Israeli government to “comply with its international obligations, to respect the privileges and immunities of the UNRWA and to keep its responsibility high in order to be full, fast, safe and unhindered humanitarian aid in all its forms Making and facilitating the entire country in and throughout the country. ” Gaza Strip. ”
The American deputy UN ambassador Robert Wood repeated the American opposition to the resistance over the ceasefire before Wednesday’s vote and criticized the Palestinians because they had again not reported the Hamas attack on Israel of 7 October 2023 .
“At a time when Hamas feels isolated because of the ceasefire in Lebanon, the design of a ceasefire in Gaza threatens to send a dangerous message to Hamas that it is not necessary to negotiate or free the hostages free to leave, “he said.
Around 1,200 people were killed in the Hamas attack, mainly citizens, and another 250 people were abducted as hostages. Forces in Gaza have not sent about a hundred hostages, a third of whom is probably dead, and the attempts to a cease-fire have come to a halt.
According to the local Ministry of Health, the Israeli retaliation offensive in Gaza killed more than 44,000 Palestinians. It says that women and children make up more than half of the dead, but makes no distinction between fighters and citizens in the count.
Wood said that the US will continue to look for a diplomatic solution for the war and called the UNRWA “a crucial lifeline for the Palestinian people.” But he said that UNRWA resolution shows “serious shortcomings” because it is unable to create a path to restore the trust between the UN agency and Israel-despite American efforts and an American proposal.
Just before the vote, the Israeli UN ambassador Danon accused the supporters of the resolutions of complicity of Hamas, which, according to him, “hopelessly infiltrated” in the UNRWA, and he denounced their inability to link a cease-fire-fired fires To the release of the hostages.
“By demanding a ceasefire today without addressing the hostages, this meeting will again choose the side of those who arm human suffering,” said Danon. “It will issue the message that the lives of innocent Israelis, including children, are not worth your attention.”
“This is not diplomacy,” he emphasized. “It’s reconciliation. It makes terror possible and abandons the innocent. “
At the opening of the parliament debate last Wednesday, the Palestinian UN ambassador accused Riyad Mansour Israel of mass murders, displacement, destruction and famine-“A cruel war of atrocities against a whole civilian population.”
Mansour said that the only way to stop the atrocities, liberate the hostages “and retain the hope for another future” is an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and supports humanitarian efforts and the attempt of Israel to Undrwa to eliminate, prevents.
The Slovenian UN ambassador Samuel žbogar, who displays the views of many speakers, pointed to the tens of thousands of deaths in Gaza.
“Gaza no longer exists,” he told the meeting on Wednesday. “It has been destroyed. Citizens are confronted with hunger, despair and death. “