General Assembly

General Assembly Resumes Emergency Special Session on Palestine

17 June 2025

The General Assembly adopted a resolution 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". The resolution was titled "Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations". It was adopted by recorded vote: 149 votes in favour; 12 against; 19 abstentions.

Viliami Va'inga Tone (left), Vice-President of the seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly and Permanent Representative of Tonga to the United Nations, chairs the meeting.

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