UN General Assembly demands full Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian territories and Syrian Golan —— The UN General Assembly has adopted two resolutions demanding Israel withdraw from occupied Arab territories,
including the Palestinian lands taken since 1967 and the Syrian Golan
In the first resolution, passed by 151 votes to 11, the Assembly called for a “peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine” and urged renewed, collective efforts to launch credible final-status negotiations
It backed convening an international conference in Moscow and pressed both sides to reverse worsening political conditions
The text demanded Israel end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, halt all settlement expansion, evacuate settlers, and withdraw fully from the territories occupied since 1967
It rejected any demographic or territorial engineering in Gaza and stressed the need to reunify the Strip with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority. It also reaffirmed the Palestinian right to self-determination and called for a just resolution of the refugee issue
A second resolution, adopted by 123 votes to 7, declared Israel’s 1981 move to impose its laws on the occupied Syrian Golan “null and void” and urged its rescission
It pressed Israel to resume talks on the Syrian and Lebanese tracks and demanded withdrawal to the 4 June 1967 line
