NEW YORK, November 16, 2018 – The UN General Assembly’s decolonization committee, which includes all 193 member states, today adopted nine resolutions against Israel, and zero on the rest of the world.
The texts condemned Israel for “repressive measures” against Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights, praised the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), and renew the mandate of a UN special committee to investigate “Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people.” For more information, see UN Watch’s press release.
Following are the resolutions and vote tallies.
- Assistance to Palestine refugees [A/C.4/73/L.14]: Adopted by a vote of 161 – 2 – 8
- Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities [A/C.4/73/L.15]: Adopted by a vote of 155 – 5 – 10
- Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East [A/C.4/73/L.16]: Adopted by a vote of 158 – 5 – 7
- Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues [A/C.4/73/L.17]: Adopted by a vote of 155 – 5 – 10
- Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories [A/C.4/73/L.18]: Adopted by a vote of 77 – 8 – 79
- Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories [A/C.4/73/L.19]: Adopted by a vote of 154 – 5 – 8
- Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan [A/C.4/73/L.20]: Adopted by a vote of 153 – 5 – 10
- Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem [A/C.4/73/L.21]: Adopted by a vote of 153 – 6 – 9
- The occupied Syrian Golan [A/C.4/73/L.22]: Adopted by a vote of 151 – 2 – 14
