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UN General Assembly widely supports a Palestinian resolution demanding Israel end its occupation | AP News

UN General Assembly widely supports a Palestinian resolution demanding Israel end its occupation | AP News

The U.N. General Assembly strongly supported a nonbinding Palestinian resolution Wednesday demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year. The vote in the 193-member world body on Wednesday was 124-14, with 43 abstentions.

The U.N. General Assembly strongly supported a nonbinding Palestinian resolution Wednesday demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year. The vote in the 193-member world body on Wednesday was 124-14, with 43 abstentions.