NEW YORK (Dispatches) – A high-level United Nations conference has urged recognition of Palestine as a state by all countries, while also lambasting the Israeli regime’s October 2023-present war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.
The two-day event wound down on Tuesday after the participants signed the “New York Declaration” that urged the global recognition.
As many as 147 out of the United Nations 192-strong member states have recognized the State of Palestine. Those that have so far refused include the United States, the regime’s biggest ally, which invariably sways its veto power so it can shield Tel Aviv against punitive UN measures.
Without naming Tel Aviv and Washington, which also supports the former with untrammeled lethal aid, the document said “illegal unilateral actions are posing an existential threat to the realization of the independent state of Palestine.”
The conference further denounced the regime’s aggression against civilians and civilian infrastructures in Gaza and its “siege and starvation, which have produced a devastating humanitarian catastrophe and protection crisis.”
More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of the war that has seen Tel Aviv also tighten its already severe 2007-present siege of the coastal sliver to insufferable proportions.
Even major Israeli rights bodies, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, have affirmed that the regime was committing genocide in Gaza, calling the US and Europe accomplices to Tel Aviv’s atrocities.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the meeting. The U.S. too has boycotted it, calling it “unproductive and ill-timed.”
Amid the provocations, the event was postponed from June and downgraded from top officials to ministers.