UN Passes Resolution To Recognize Palestine Bid For Membership

The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution to recognize State of Palestine bid as 194th member of the UN.

This resolution was passed today (Friday) after I43 member state voted in favor of the Palestine to 9 opposition with 25 abstentions.

This second part means that a Palestinian membership bid will be forwarded to the UN Security Council to “reconsider the matter favorably.”

US Deputy UN Ambassador Robert Wood confirmed this position, saying the Biden administration opposes the current resolution.

Should Palestine become a full member it would effectively acknowledge Palestinian statehood, something that Israel, a close US ally, has fought to keep from happening.

Blaze Newz gathered that last month the United States of America through the UN Security Council vetoed against the bid of Palestine submitted to the council.

With this success for the State of Palestine according to the UN general assembly, Palestine now have equal right like other members in the assembly.

Palestine has been a non-member observer state at the UN since 2012.

In the past, some nations have taken issue with the Palestinian bid, pointing to the requirement that prospective members must be “peace-loving nations.”

The situation in the Palestinian Territories, and specifically Gaza, where more than 34,000 people have been killed since Israel launched its retaliatory military operation in response to an October 7, 2023, attack by Islamist Hamas militants, has repeatedly enraged members of the General Assembly who have called for a cease-fire in the enclave.

Hamas — considered by the US, EU and others to be a terrorist organization — has run Gaza since 2007. The Israel-occupied West Bank is partially administered by the Palestinian Authority, a Hamas rival.