A/RES/75/126
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 73 (b)
Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster
relief assistance of the United Nations, including special
economic assistance: assistance to the Palestinian people
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 11 December 2020
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.43 and A/75/L.43/Add.1)]
75/126.
Assistance to the Palestinian people
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 74/117 of 16 December 2019, as well as its previous
resolutions on the question,
Recalling also the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim
Self-Government Arrangements in Washington, D.C., on 13 September 1993, by the
Government of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the
representative of the Palestinian people, 1 and the subsequent implementation
agreements concluded by the two sides,
Recalling further all relevant international law, including humanitarian and
human rights law, and, in particular, the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 3 the
Convention on the Rights of the Child 4 and the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women, 5
Gravely concerned at the difficult living conditions and humanitarian situation
affecting the Palestinian people, in particular women and children, throughout the
occupied Palestinian territory, particularly in the Gaza Strip where economic recovery
and vast infrastructure repair, rehabilitation and development are urgently needed,
especially in the aftermath of the conflict of July and August 2014,
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A/48/486-S/26560, annex.
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
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