The Palestinian-drafted resolution is an attempt to give more weight to an advisory opinion from July by the International Court of Justice, which declared Israeli presence to be illegal in any area over the 1949 armistice line.
According to the Jewish News Syndicate, the resolution demands that the Israel Defense Forces withdraw completely from the Old City of Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, Judea, and Samaria within 12 months, which means evacuating all Jewish communities beyond the armistice line.
It also calls on member nations to ban arms sales to the IDF of weapons that would be used in the territory over the 1949 lines and demands a boycott of all products produced by Jews in those areas.
The resolution does not include any of the Jewish state’s security concerns, historic ties to Israel, or the Palestinian terror attacks in Israel on Oct. 7.
The United States opposed the resolution with Argentina, Czechia, Fiji, Hungary, Malawi, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Tonga, and Tuvalu.
Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Ukraine were among those who abstained.
There is no legal force to the resolution. It was merely a symbolic move to help the case in international courts against Israel.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon called the vote “a shameful decision that backs the Palestinian Authority’s diplomatic terrorism,” adding that the General Assembly “continues to dance to the music of the Palestinian Authority, which backs the Hamas murderers.”
Earlier this year, over 100 victims of the October 7, 2023, Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israel and their families filed a lawsuit claiming $1 billion in damages from UNRWA, the UN aid agency for Palestinians, after it was revealed that members of the organization took part in the terror group’s massacre.
