The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted on Monday two resolutions on the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights and Israeli colonial settlements.

In its 52nd session convened in Geneva and under agenda item 7, UNHRC adopted by an overwhelming majority draft resolution A/HRC/52/L.32 on the inalienable, permanent & unqualified right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including their right to live in freedom, justice & dignity and the right to their independent state.

41 UNHRC member states voted in favor of the resolution; Three, namely Cameron, Lithuania and Romania abstained, and three others, namely Czechia, the United States of America (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK), voted against it.

UNHRC also adopted by an overwhelming majority draft resolution A/HRC/52/L.42 on the Israeli colonial settlements established since 1967 in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan.

38 UNHRC voted in favor of the resolution; Five, namely Cameron, Georgia, Lithuania, Romania and Ukraine, abstained and four others, namely Czechia, Malawi, USA and UK, voted against it.