The United Nations General Assembly adopts by an overwhelming majority a resolution affirming the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination

The United Nations General Assembly -today, Monday- adopted by an overwhelming majority a resolution affirming the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.

It stated that 164 countries in the United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of a resolution affirming the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, while 8 countries voted against it, namely Israel, the United States, Micronesia, Argentina, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea, Palau, and Nauru.

9 countries abstained from voting, namely Ecuador, Togo, Tonga, Panama, Fiji, Cameroon, Marshall Islands, Samoa, and South Sudan.

The resolution in its text refers to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice dated July 2024, which states that "the continued existence of the State of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory is illegal," emphasizing that Palestinians have "the right to self-determination" and that "Israeli settlements established on occupied lands must be evacuated."

The Permanent Representative of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, praised the UN resolution and the vote in its favor.

The UN resolution comes after two years of a genocide war launched by Israel on Gaza since October 8, 2023, resulting in the martyrdom of more than 70,000 Palestinians and injuring more than 171,000 in the Gaza Strip, most of them children and women.

Simultaneously, the Israeli army killed 1,096 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, injured about 11,000 others, in addition to arresting more than 21,000.

For decades, Israel has occupied lands in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, and refuses to withdraw from them and establish an independent Palestinian state, with its capital in East Jerusalem, on the borders before the 1967 war.