Arab League to submit anti-Israel resolution to UN
The Arab League is to present the United Nations with a resolution requesting an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian and Arab land.
The regional organization, which has drafted the document, said on Sunday that it would later submit the resolution to the UN Security Council.
The draft urges Israel’s withdrawal from all occupied territories, including the Golan Heights in Syria as well as southern Lebanon.
It added that the draft also underlines the need for finding a just solution to the problems of the millions of Palestinians who have been forced to leave their country and live elsewhere.
The UN received a draft resolution by Arab states in 2014 calling on Tel Aviv to end its occupation of Palestinian territories by 2017. The move was, however, met with a United States veto.
Israel occupied the Palestinian territories of East al-Quds (Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank during the Six-Day War of 1967. Tel Aviv conducted a self-proclaimed withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, but Israeli forces have been carrying out regular deadly forays into the sliver ever since the pullout.
The 1967 war also saw Israel seizing the Golan Heights, which the regime annexed in 1981.
Also on Sunday, the Arab League issued a statement, saying that the council of the organization “confirms its support for the Palestinian leadership in its effort to end the Israeli occupation over Palestinian lands, and emphasizes its rejection of recognizing Israel as a ‘Jewish state.’”
The League also said Israeli settlement construction on Palestinian land is illegal and against international law.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank including East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
The international community regards the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in the 1967 war and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on the occupied lands.
HN/HJL/SS
New York Times leaked memo on Gaza coverage reveals obfuscation of facts
The struggles of Occupied Palestine
April 19: ‘Axis of Resistance’ operations against Israeli occupation
The struggles of Occupied Palestine
Ayatollah Khamenei exalts great Persian poet on Saadi Day
Iran’s Civil Defense examines country’s preparation for potential threats
FBI chief: Chinese hackers targeting critical US infrastructure
New York Times leaked memo on Gaza coverage reveals obfuscation of facts
VIDEO | Press TV's news headlines
Barbados officially announces recognition of Palestine as state
US Senate reauthorizes surveillance bill despite privacy concerns
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
