Key Points
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday backed a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by recognising it as qualified to join and recommending the UN Security Council reconsider the matter favorably...
The vote by the 193-member General Assembly was a global survey of support for the Palestinian bid to become a full UN member a move that would effectively recognise a Palestinian state after the United States vetoed it in the UN Security Council last month...
The General Assembly resolution determines that the State of Palestine ... should therefore be admitted to membership and it recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter favorably..
The Palestinian push for full UN membership comes seven months into a war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and as Israel is expanding settlements in the West Bank, which the UN considers to be illegal..
Expressing his dismay over the voting result, Israels foreign minister Israel Katz called the UN General Assemblys decision to upgrade the status of Palestinians a prize for Hamas The absurd decision taken at the UN General Assembly highlights the structural bias of the UN and the reasons why it has turned itself into an irrelevant institution, he said..
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