The United Nations General Assembly on Friday supported Palestine’s bid to become a full member of the United Nations, recognizing it as a member of the Security Council and recommending that the Security Council “reconsider the matter in a sympathetic manner.”
According to the British news agency Reuters, this vote by the 193-member General Assembly of the United Nations is a global survey in support of the Palestinians to become a full member of the United Nations.
Under this process, Palestine is to be effectively recognized as a state. The United States vetoed the resolution in this regard in the United Nations Security Council last month.
On Friday, the General Assembly approved the resolution with 143 votes in favor. Nine votes were cast once morest, including the United States and Israel.
25 countries abstained from voting. This resolution will not grant Palestine full membership of the United Nations, but merely recognizes it as eligible to become a member.
The UN General Assembly resolution ‘determines that Palestine is a state and therefore should be admitted and recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter in a sympathetic manner.’
The Palestinian push for full UN membership comes seven months following the start of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and at a time when Israel is expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank, which the UN has declared unsanctioned. It has been declared a legal process.
In his address to the General Assembly before the vote on the resolution, Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour said: ‘We want peace. We want freedom. A vote in favor (of the resolution) is a vote in favor of the existence of Palestine. It is not once morest any state. It is an investment in peace.’
According to news agency AFP Israel has bombarded Rafah on Friday. Earlier, negotiators in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, left the talks without reaching an agreement for a ceasefire.
AFP correspondents witnessed the artillery shelling of Rafah as US President Joe Biden vowed in an interview that if there was a major attack on the southern Gaza city, Israel would The supply of cannon balls and other weapons will be stopped.
This is the first time that Biden has increased the final pressure of the United States on Israel and talked regarding ending the total military aid of three billion dollars a year. Earlier, the US repeatedly appealed to Israel to stay out of Rafah.
Despite international opposition, Israeli troops entered the eastern part of Rafah on Tuesday, claiming they were pursuing militants.
Gaza According to the Ministry of Health, as a result of Israeli attacks, at least 34,904 Palestinian citizens have died, most of whom are women and children.
Israeli troops this week seized the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza and closed it. From this point the fuel is brought into the area. Earlier, Israel ordered the residents of East Rafah to leave the area.
Israel says its southern border with the Palestinian enclave of Karam Abu Salem reopened on Wednesday. On Friday, it said air defenses intercepted an attack “from the Rafah area”.
Most of the aid in Gaza comes through Karam Abu Salem, but Andrea D’Domenico, head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, says that the entry of aid through Karam Abu Salem is difficult.
He said that ‘we have lost the central point of entry of all relief supplies.’ On Friday, the United Nations said more than 100,000 people had been displaced from Rafah.
The United Nations says that 1.4 million people have taken refuge in this city on the border with Egypt. At the start of the offensive, Israel asked Palestinians to move to “safe areas” south of Gaza, including Rafah.
The evacuees piled mattresses and other belongings on dilapidated vehicles, even donkey carts, moving forward once more as dust billowed behind them as they passed bombed-out buildings.
Many have returned to the city of Khan Yunis, where heavy attacks continued earlier this year, or are gathering in shelters by the sea in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.
The Israeli army said on Friday that the operation in eastern Rafah is ongoing. According to the statement of the Israeli army: “Soldiers destroyed several positions at the Rafah crossing towards Gaza in heavy fighting and airstrikes.”
Palestinian children try to get food in Rafah refugee camp (Reuters)
Witnesses reported airstrikes and fighting in Gaza City. According to Al-Qaira News, the negotiating teams of Israel and Hamas left Cairo on Thursday. Egypt called the talks a two-day round of indirect talks on the terms of a ceasefire in Gaza.
In a telephone conversation, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and US Secretary of State Anthony Blanken “agreed on the importance of urging the parties to show flexibility and do all they can to achieve a ceasefire,” Egypt’s foreign ministry said in a statement. Make the necessary efforts.’
Hamas says its delegation has gone to Qatar, where the organization’s political leadership is located.
Hamas said that in practice the occupier (Israel) rejected the proposal presented by the mediators and raised objections on several fundamental issues. According to Hamas, it supported the proposal. “The ball is now completely in the possession (Israel’s) court.”
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Hamas says it has agreed to a proposal for a “permanent ceasefire” including the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, the return of Palestinians displaced by the attacks, and a Palestinian-Israeli prisoner exchange.
Israel has long opposed a permanent cease-fire and insists it will eliminate Hamas.
In an interview with CNN, Biden threatened to cut off certain weapons supplies to Israel if Israeli forces “enter Rafah.” He lamented that US bombs have already been used to kill civilians in Gaza.
The Biden administration halted the delivery of 3,500 to Israel last week as Israel appeared ready to attack Rafah.
Asked regarding Israel’s action in Rafah, Biden said, “They didn’t go into the population centers.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not directly respond to the US threat, but said that if necessary, ‘we will stand alone.’
Philip Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, said Thursday night that it was closing its headquarters in the occupied East Jerusalem compound following “Israeli extremists” set fire to it.
The Palestinians are approaching the General Assembly following the US veto thwarted the Palestinian drive for full membership in the United Nations.
Diplomats and observers say a resolution calling for full Palestinian membership in the United Nations is likely to gain broad support on Friday, giving them some additional rights at the world body and a symbolic victory.
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