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UN recognises State of Palestine without Hamas

The General Assembly also overwhelmingly supported disarming the militant group and making it cede control of Gaza.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) overwhelmingly supported a resolution calling for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine without the involvement of Hamas.

The declaration calls for a lasting settlement to the Gaza war on the basis of separate states. It also calls for the militant group Hamas to be disarmed and excluded from governance in the enclave.

The non-binding measure passed with 142 votes in favour, 10 against and 12 abstentions, with Ukraine supporting it and Israel and the US opposing.

Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon called the move a “hollow gesture” and “not a serious attempt at peacemaking.”

“It doesn’t shorten the war, it prolongs it. It does not weaken Hamas. It rewards them,” he said at the assembly on Friday.

The militant group has not yet commented on the resolution.

This UNGA resolution is the strongest-worded to date, calling outright for Hamas to cede control of Gaza, which it has ruled for nearly two decades. Hamas came to power when it beat Fatah in the 2006 election and took full control after the two factions clashed in open conflict the following year.

In prior decisions, the UN had limited itself to condemning the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, in which the militants killed around 1,200 Israelis and took more than 250 hostages back to Gaza.

The subsequent Israeli siege of Gaza has killed nearly 65,000 Palestinians to date, according to local health authorities, and produced a devastating humanitarian situation in the enclave, leading to mounting international pressure on Israel to end its campaign.

Multiple countries have since condemned the war and recognized Palestinian statehood. At the upcoming UNGA session on September 22, Britain, France, Canada, Australia, and Belgium are expected to follow suit and formally recognize the Palestinian state.

Moscow views a two-state solution as the only way to deescalate and end the Gaza war. As the legal successor to the Soviet Union, Russia has long recognized Palestinian statehood.

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    • this is what hardly anybody comprehends: vast parts of palestine has been stolen and made arbitrarily into israhell and the rest of West Bank and now Gaza is occupied. If a people has nothing to lose that people becomes a ‘forever resistance’.
      The UN resolution should read:
      ===The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) overwhelmingly supported a resolution calling for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine without the involvement of Israel Zionists.
      The declaration calls for a lasting settlement to the Gaza war on the basis of separate states. It also calls for the militant group IDF to be disarmed and excluded from governance in the enclave.===

  1. Some shady politics going on here
    The UN has no credibility whatsoever
    The Palace of Strangers
    Mainly non white countries
    The confederation against YAHWAH Gods Kingdom in earth
    A US paid off strong arm control mechanism to aspirations of hegemony takeover and control
    Uninvolved in peace

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