RAMALLAH, December 5, 2025 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed on Friday the adoption by the UN General Assembly of five resolutions in favor of Palestine, including the renewal of UNRWA’s mandate.
The Ministry commended the positions of the states that supported the resolution, as well as the broad and unprecedented international backing, which reflects the status of the Palestinian cause in the global conscience and constitutes a clear rejection of the policies of Israeli colonial occupation amid its ongoing brutal aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem.
It stressed that the resolutions reflect wide-ranging solidarity from around the world with the Palestinian people and their just cause, and represent an acknowledgment of the international community’s responsibility to support political and humanitarian needs, including the inalienable rights of Palestinian refugees, pending a just and lasting solution to their plight.
It added that the resolutions further reaffirm global support for UNRWA’s mandate, both politically and financially, the protection of Palestinian refugees’ rights and property, and the condemnation of Israeli colonial settlement construction as illegal and void.
The Ministry pointed out that the sweeping vote constitutes an additional expression of the international community’s rejection of annexation, colonial settlement expansion, forced displacement, collective punishment, and the widespread destruction of infrastructure in the occupied Palestinian territory, as well as genocide in the Gaza Strip, considering these practices to be grave violations of international humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions, and Security Council resolutions, foremost among them Resolution 2334.
It called on the world to support the work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices, to deter Israel’s crimes and colonial practices, including colonial settlement and annexation, and attempts to alter the geographic and demographic character of the occupied Palestinian territory.
It further stressed the need to provide international protection for the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem, in light of the ongoing crimes of the occupation and settler terrorism, as well as the importance of ensuring the unobstructed delivery of humanitarian assistance and immediately initiating efforts to revive life and rebuild the Gaza Strip.
It affirmed that this international consensus constitutes a fundamental pillar of ongoing diplomatic efforts to protect national rights and confront Israel’s attempts to undermine legal, natural, and historical rights.
It thanked the states that voted in support of these resolutions and called on those that did not to reconsider their positions, to stand on the right side of law and history, and to translate the adopted resolutions into practical measures that guarantee the protection of the Palestinian people and strengthen their right to self-determination and the realization of the independent State of Palestine on the 4 June 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, as soon as possible.
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