The United Nations General Assembly calls for a large-scale commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. Hungary did not support the initiative to commemorate the Palestinian day of mourning, but the majority of member states accepted it, Neukohn reports.
The United Nations will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba in May 2023 by “organizing a high-level event.” The UN resolution on the matter was adopted by 90 in favour, 30 against, with 47 abstentions. Neukohn. According to the portal, the initiative was supported by, among others, Egypt, Jordan, Senegal, Tunisia, Yemen and the Palestinians, but a number of Islamic countries with good or acceptable relations with Israel, such as Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt and Jordan. Morocco also voted yes, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.
As is well known, Al-Nakba means catastrophe in Arabic, and on this day the Palestinians commemorate the loss of their homeland with the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
The proposal to celebrate a “mourning day” did not gain the support of our country, and Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as Israel did the same. Ukraine did not vote.
According to Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations
The aim of the initiative is to transfer responsibility for what happened in the Middle East to Israel alone, while absolving the Palestinians of all responsibility.
The international community commemorates the independence of one of its countries and describes it as a disaster. What a shame, Erdan said about the Nakba resolution, which also presented an exhibition at the United Nations on the “Jewish Nakba,” that is, the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab countries and Iran in the 1940s and 1950s.
“Their only sin is that they are Jews. This is the real Nakba. This is the disaster that the Jewish people suffered from, and this is the disaster that this body has ignored for decades.”
The exhibition will be shown for a week at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour said at the event: “We are at the end of the road to a two-state solution. The international community must either muster the will to act decisively or passively to let peace die. Peacefully, but passively.”
Mansour called on the international community to do so
Put pressure on Israel, and make the United Nations fully recognize the Palestinians, and push for the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
On Tuesday, the day the resolution was voted on, the United Nations held an event marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
