General Assembly Resumes Emergency Special Session on Palestine

The General Assembly adopted two resolutions during the resumed 10th Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly on "Illegal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory". One resolution was titled "Demand for ceasefire in Gaza" and the other "Support for the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)".

Barbara Woodward (at left of third row), Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, greets Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, after the adoptions.