The UN General Assembly voted on 12 September to endorse a seven-page declaration calling for “tangible, timebound, and irreversible steps” toward a two-state solution in occupied Palestine.
The resolution, called the “New York Declaration”, was adopted with 142 votes in favor, 10 against, and 12 abstentions.
The text, drafted during a July conference hosted by Saudi Arabia and France, demands that the genocide in Gaza “must end now” and backs the deployment of a temporary international stabilization mission under a Security Council mandate.
The seven-page declaration condemned both the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on 7 October 2023, as well as the genocidal war committed by Israel since then.
The declaration described Israel's actions as producing “a devastating humanitarian catastrophe and protection crisis.”
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot celebrated the outcome, writing in an X post: “For the first time today, the United Nations adopted a text condemning it for its crimes and calling for its surrender and disarmament.”
All Gulf Arab states supported the resolution, while Israel and the US voted against, joined by Argentina, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, and Tonga.
US diplomat Morgan Ortagus dismissed the decision as “yet another misguided and ill-timed publicity stunt” and called the resolution “a gift to Hamas.”
“Far from promoting peace, the conference has already prolonged the war, emboldened Hamas and harmed the prospects of peace in both short and long term,” Ortagus said.
Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon also rejected the declaration, saying: “The only beneficiary is Hamas … When terrorists are the ones cheering, you are not advancing peace; you are advancing terror.”
The United States and Israel had boycotted the July conference that took place in New York, where the seven-page declaration was first drafted and is named after.
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