SEVENTY-SIXTH SESSION, 50TH & 51ST MEETINGS (AM & PM)
GA/12395
10 DECEMBER 2021
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By the terms of the resolution “Assistance to the Palestinian people” (document A/76/L.25), the Assembly urged Member States, international financial institutions of the United Nations system and other relevant organizations to extend, as rapidly and as generously as possible, economic and social assistance to the Palestinian people. The Assembly also called on the international community to provide urgently needed assistance and services to alleviate the difficult humanitarian situation faced by Palestinian women, children and their families, and urged Member States to open their markets to exports of Palestinian products on the most favourable terms. The Assembly also asked the Secretary-General to submit a report to the body at its seventy-seventh session on the text’s implementation, which assesses the assistance received by the Palestinian people, their unmet needs and specific proposals to respond to the same.
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Statements
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AIDA SAFURA NIZA OTHMAN (Malaysia),…It also agreed to a predictable long‑term contribution of $1 million over a period of five years to UNRWA, in support of the Agency’s relief efforts to the Palestinian people.
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ABDULLAH M.A. ABU SHAWESH, observer for the State of Palestine, cited the latest United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia report, which noted that that the COVID‑19 pandemic struck an already weakened Palestinian economy. Furthermore, the report indicated that customs tax and the value‑added tax collected by Israel for the Palestinian National Authority represent up to 75 per cent of the Palestinian revenues, and that the fiscal stalemate with Israel over clearance revenues weighed heavily on the Palestinian economy. In that regard, he called on the international community to compel Israel to end its repeated practice of withholding taxes and customs revenues owed to the Palestinian people. Meanwhile, United Nations agencies and programmes which continue to provide vital assistance to the Palestinian people, are helping to mitigate the serious challenges they face in the context of more than half a century of foreign occupation, he said. The situation has long been deemed unsustainable and requires not only urgent humanitarian remedies, but diplomatic, political, and legal mechanisms available for States, to compel Israel to cease its war crimes and human rights violations.
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Actions on Draft Resolutions
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The Assembly also adopted without a vote the draft resolution “Assistance to the Palestinian people” (document A/76/L.25).
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Right of Reply
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The representative of Iran, stressing that Israel continues to violate the rights of Palestinians and Arabs living under its occupation, said Palestinians have been deprived of their land, forcibly evicted and subjected to violence and intimidation. As the international community continues to address the impacts of COVID‑19, Israel is accelerating its illegal settlements to further its occupation. The blockade on the Gaza Strip continues to deepen the severity of the humanitarian crisis there.
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For information media. Not an official record.
Document Sources: General Assembly, United Nations Department of Global Communications
Country: Iran (Islamic Republic of), Malaysia, Palestine (State of)
Subject: Assistance, Assistance to the Palestinian people, Closures/Curfews/Blockades, Covenant: Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Economic issues, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law
Publication Date: 10/12/2021
URL source: https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/ga12395.doc.htm