UN Members Demand Israel Withdraw From Palestinian Territories
- General Assembly resolution demanded immediate withdrawal
- Israel condemns ‘tradition of passing one-sided resolutions’
In a photo taken during a tour with the Israeli military, Israeli Military soldiers drive past destroyed buildings in Rafah on Sept. 13.
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The United Nations General Assembly demanded Wednesday that Israel withdraw from the Palestinian territories captured in 1967, end the settlement of the West Bank and allow displaced Palestinians and their descendants to return.
The nonbinding resolution put forward by the Palestinian Authority reaffirms a recent advisory opinion by the UN’s International Court of Justice, which said in July that Israel should end its “unlawful” presence in the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.