RAMALLAH, June 13, 2025 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Presidency has welcomed the United Nations General Assembly’s overwhelming adoption of a resolution demanding an immediate halt to the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip. 

The resolution also condemns the use of starvation as a weapon, calls for the lifting of the Israeli blockade hindering humanitarian aid, and stresses the need for accountability to ensure Israel, as the occupying power, complies with international law.

In a statement issued shortly after the vote, the Presidency thanked the 149 countries that supported the resolution. It said the vote reflects the world’s rejection of the Israeli assault, forced displacement, killing, and starvation of the Palestinian people. 

The decision, the statement added, aligns with President Mahmoud Abbas’s stance that the priority must be to stop the genocidal war, ensure the flow of humanitarian aid, secure a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, end unilateral Israeli actions that violate international law, and initiate a political process to implement the two-state solution and achieve international recognition of a Palestinian state based on UN resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative.

The Presidency commended the resolution’s call for immediate and concrete steps to preserve the territorial unity of the occupied Palestinian land, including East Jerusalem, and to reunite Gaza and the West Bank under the administration of the Palestinian Authority.

The Presidency stressed that the resolution reaffirms that the vast majority of the international community stands with the Palestinian people and their legitimate struggle, as well as with the efforts of Palestinian leadership in international arenas to secure the rights of Palestinians to freedom, independence, and statehood.

The Presidency stated that the vote sends a clear message to Israel that its ongoing actions have lost the support of much of the world. It urged all countries that backed the resolution to take steps to ensure Israel abides by it.

Finally, the Presidency said the landslide support for the resolution sends a strong signal to the few states that voted against it, urging them to reconsider their position, which runs counter to the international consensus rejecting the continued occupation and aggression against the Palestinian people.

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