The UN General Assembly (UNGA) approved a resolution that aims to expand Palestine’s “rights and privileges” with 143 countries voting in favor, nine voting against, and 25 abstentions.

Iran PressAmerica: The UN General Assembly meeting is underway to address Palestine's rights, calling on the Security Council to revise the country's request to become the 194th member of the UN. 

This evening, the UNGA examined the draft resolution that provides Palestine with the right to membership in different UN-affiliated entities it could not join before, but it does not allow for the full membership of the country in the UN. 

Palestine is currently a non-member observer, but it has been trying for years to become a full member of the UN. The last effort last month was vetoed by the US in the UNSC.

Yet the Israeli regime's ambassador denounced the UN for “welcoming a terror state into its ranks”.

The US-backed Israeli unprecedented genocide of the Palestinian people began on October 7, as the result of which over 34,900 people have so far been martyred and over 78,500 others have been wounded, besides the Gazans' struggling with famine and starvation created due to the war. 

Now, Israel has launched a heavy war on Gaza’s southern Rafah, and some 110,000 Palestinians have fled, according to the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). 219

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