With a recorded vote of 124 nations in favour, 14 towards, and 43 abstentions, the decision requires Israel to adjust to worldwide regulation and withdraw its navy forces, instantly stop all new settlement exercise, evacuate all settlers from occupied land, and dismantle components of the separation wall it constructed contained in the occupied West Financial institution.
The Normal Meeting additional demanded that Israel return land and different “immovable property”, in addition to all property seized because the occupation started in 1967, and all cultural property and property taken from Palestinians and Palestinian establishments.
The decision additionally calls for Israel enable all Palestinians displaced in the course of the occupation to return to their native land and make reparation for the injury attributable to its occupation.
The decision stems from the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in July, during which the Court docket declared that Israel’s continued presence within the Territory “is illegal”, and that “all States are beneath an obligation to not acknowledge” the decades-long occupation.
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Menace to peace and safety
The Meeting “strongly deplored the continued and whole disregard and breaches” by the Authorities of Israel of its obligations beneath the UN Charter, worldwide regulation and UN resolutions, stressing that such breaches “critically threaten” regional and worldwide peace and safety.
It additionally acknowledged that Israel “should be held to account for any violations” of worldwide regulation within the Occupied Palestinian Territory, together with of worldwide humanitarian and human rights legal guidelines.
The textual content says Israel “should bear the authorized penalties of all its internationally wrongful acts, together with by making reparation for the damage, together with any injury, attributable to such acts.”
The Normal Meeting highlighted the necessity for the institution of a world mechanism for reparations to handle injury, loss, or damage attributable to Israel’s actions.
It additionally referred to as for creating a world register of injury triggered, to doc proof and associated claims.
Worldwide convention
The decision additionally features a choice to convene a world convention in the course of the Meeting’s present session to implement UN resolutions pertaining to the query of Palestine and the two-State resolution for the achievement of a simply, lasting and complete peace within the Center East.
Moreover, the Meeting requested the UN Secretary-Normal to current proposals for a mechanism to comply with up on Israel’s violations of article 3 of the Worldwide Conference on the Elimination of All Types of Racial Discrimination, as recognized by the ICJ.
Article 3 refers to racial segregation and apartheid and the endeavor by Worldwide Conference’s States Events to forestall, prohibit and eradicate all practices of this nature in territories beneath their jurisdiction.
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Normal Meeting votes on a draft decision on the ICJ advisory opinion.
Name on States
In its decision, the Normal Meeting referred to as upon all UN Member States to adjust to their obligations beneath worldwide regulation and take concrete steps to handle Israel’s ongoing presence within the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
The Meeting urged States to chorus from recognizing Israel’s presence within the Territory as lawful and to make sure that they don’t present assist or help in sustaining the state of affairs created by the occupation. This contains taking measures to forestall their nationals, firms, and entities beneath their jurisdiction from participating in actions that help or maintain Israel’s occupation.
Moreover, the Meeting referred to as on States to stop importing merchandise originating from Israeli settlements and to halt the switch of arms, munitions, and associated tools to Israel in instances the place there are cheap grounds to suspect they might be used within the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Furthermore, the decision urged States to implement sanctions, corresponding to journey bans and asset freezes, towards people and entities concerned in sustaining Israel’s illegal presence within the Territory. This contains addressing points associated to settler violence and guaranteeing that these engaged in these actions face authorized and monetary penalties.
Adjournment
Lastly, the Meeting briefly adjourned its tenth emergency particular session and licensed the President of the General Assembly to reconvene the session upon request from Member States.
The particular session is a continuation of the tenth emergency particular session of the Normal Meeting that last met in May amid the ongoing crisis in Gaza, throughout which it adopted a resolution, laying out further rights for the State of Palestine’s participation in Meeting conferences.
That decision didn’t grant Palestine the best to vote or put ahead its candidature to UN Most important Organs such because the Security Council or the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
It additionally didn’t confer membership to the State of Palestine, which requires a particular advice from the Safety Council.
