United Nations (Reuters) – The General Assembly of the United Nations on Friday voted overwhelming to endorse a statement in which “tangible, time -bound and irreversible steps” are sketched to a two -state solution between Israel and the Palestinians prior to a meeting of world leaders.
The declaration of seven pages is the result of an international conference on the UN in July – organized by Saudi -Arabia and France – in the decades of conflict. The United States and Israel Boycot The event.
A resolution that endorsed the statement received 142 votes for and 10 against, while 12 countries abstain.
The mood occurs at a meeting of world leaders on September 22 – on the sidelines of the general meeting at a high level – where Great Britain, France, Canada, Australia and Belgium are expected to formally recognize a Palestinian state.
The statement approved by the 193-members General Assembly condemns the attacks against Israel by Palestinian militants Hamas on October 7, 2023, which caused the war in Gaza.
It also condemns Israel's attacks against citizens and civil infrastructure in Gaza, siege and hunger, “who have resulted in a devastating humanitarian catastrophe and protection crisis.”
The French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said that the resolution secure the international insulation of Hamas.
“For the first time today, the United Nations took over a text that the convicted person for his crimes and calls for his surrender and disarmament,” he said in an X post.
The resolution was supported by all Gulf Arab states. Israel and the United States voted against it, together with Argentina, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua -New -Guinea, Paraguay and Tonga.
The statement that is endorsed by the resolution says that the war in Gaza “must end now” and the use of a temporary international stabilization mission supported by the UN Security Council.
The United States described the mood as “another miserable and poorly timed publicity stunt” that undermined serious diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.
“Make no mistake, this resolution is a gift to Hamas,” the American diplomat Morgan Ortagus told the general meeting. “Far from promoting peace, the conference has already extended the war, encouraged Hamas and harmed the prospects of peace in the short and long term.”
Israel, which has long been criticizing the UN because he did not convict Hamas by name for the attacks of 7 October, rejected the statement as one -sided and described the mood as a theater.
“The only beneficiary is Hamas … When terrorists are the ones who cheer, you don't go on your way to peace; you go up terror,” said Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon.
The attack on October 7, 2023, Hamas on Israel, killed 1200 people, mainly civilians, and around 251 were held hostage, according to Israeli tallies. According to the local health authorities, more than 64,000 people, including citizens, have since been killed during the war in Gaza.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Edit by Rami Ayyub and Nia Williams)
