U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly votes for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict

Friday, the United Nations General Assembly voted to support a two -state solution Israeli-Palestinian conflict And urges Israel to engage in a Palestinian state.

The World Organization of 193 members approved a non -binding resolution approving the “New York Declaration”, which defines a progressive plan to put an end to the conflict of almost 80 years. The vote was 142-10 with 12 abstentions. The United States was one of the 10 states that voted against.

A few hours before the vote, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “There will be no Palestinian state.”

The resolution was sponsored by France and Saudi Arabia, which co -chaired a high -level conference on the implementation of a two -state solution in late July, where the declaration of the declaration was agreed.

The wider Israeli-Palestinian War of the War in Gaza and the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be at the top of the agenda of world leaders during their annual gathering at the General Assembly from September 22. The Palestinian delegation says that they hope that at least 10 additional countries will recognize Palestine as a state, adding to more than 145 countries that have already done so.

Riyad Mansour, Palestinian UN ambassador, said that the majority support for resolution reflects “the desire for almost everyone, the international community, to open the door to the peace option”.

But Israel’s ambassador Danny Danon rejected resolution as a “theater”, saying that the only beneficiary is Hamas.

“This unilateral declaration will not remain in memories as a stage towards peace, only as another hollow gesture which weakens the credibility of this assembly,” he said.

The United States, the closest ally to Israel, has echoed this position.

The resolution “is yet another wrong and poorly informed advertising that undermines serious diplomatic efforts to end the conflict,” said the American mission advisor Morgan Ortagus. “Make no mistake, this resolution is a gift for Hamas.”

The declaration also condemns “the attacks committed by Hamas against civilians” in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, a rare condemnation of the Arab nations of Hamas. The activists led by Hamas killed around 1,200 people, mainly Israeli civilians, and took around 250 hostages. Among these, 48 are still in progress, including around 20 which would be alive.

The United Nations resolution also condemns Israel’s attacks on civilians and civil infrastructure in Gaza and its “siege and famine, which have produced a devastating humanitarian disaster and a protection crisis”.

In recent days, Israeli defense forces have intensified strikes in the city of Gaza, the largest urban area in the territory, destroying several high -rise buildings, which, according to TDI, Hamas has used monitoring purposes.

On Saturday, the army quoted the same reason to strike another height in the region. The FDI has ordered all residents to leave Gaza City because it continues an offensive against what it calls the last bastion of Hamas. Hundreds of thousands of people remain there, in difficulty in famine conditions, according to humanitarian agencies.

In a message on social networks on Saturday, the Israeli army told other Palestinians from Gaza City to leave “immediately” and move south in what it calls a humanitarian area. Army spokesperson Avichay Adraee said that more than a quarter of a million people had left Gaza City – compared to around 1 million people who live in and around the city in North Gaza.

The UN, however, has put the number of people who left around 100,000 between mid-August and mid-September. The UN and the aid groups have warned that moving hundreds of thousands of people would exacerbate the casualness of the humanitarian crisis.

Israel’s offensive against Hamas has killed more than 64,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health managed by Hamas, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.

The New York Declaration is considering the Palestinian authority governing and controlling the whole Palestinian territory, with an administrative committee for transition immediately established under its umbrella after a cease-fire in Gaza.

“In the context of the end of the war in Gaza, Hamas must put an end to its reign in Gaza and put its arms to the Palestinian authority,” said the declaration.

He also supports the deployment of “a temporary international stabilization mission” operating under the United Nations auspices to protect Palestinian civilians, support security transfer to the Palestinian authority and provide security guarantees for Palestine and Israel-“including monitoring the ceasefire and a future peace agreement”.

The declaration urges the countries to recognize the state of Palestine, calling this “an essential and essential component of the realization of the two -state solution”. Without appointing Israel but which clearly refers to it, the document indicates that “illegal unilateral actions constitute an existential threat for the realization of the independent state of Palestine”.