Following the United States’ veto of a similar push in the Security Council last week, the General Assembly adopted the non-binding resolution by a vote of 149-12, with 19 abstentions.
However it goes further than the US-vetoed text, taking direct aim at Israel over its impeding aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip.
It also calls on all UN members to “individually and collectively take all measures necessary, in line with international law... to ensure compliance by Israel with its obligations.”
Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour meanwhile called on all nations to turn their votes “into resolute action.”
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The resolution adopted on Thursday “strongly (condemns) any use of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and the unlawful denial of humanitarian access.”
The United Nations, which until now has sought to coordinate aid deliveries throughout Gaza, refuses to work with the GHF, citing concerns over its practices and neutrality.
GHF meanwhile blamed the Palestinian militant group Hamas for the deaths of at least eight of its staff in Gaza late Wednesday.
In the absence of Security Council action, Mansour had called last week for all countries to take “immediate and real measures” to force Israel “to stop the mad march it is embarked on.”
It was a UN General Assembly resolution in 1947 that divided British-ruled Palestine into two states -- one Arab and one Jewish.
Over the decades, the UN body has expressed its strong support for the Palestinians in the face of the continuing Israeli occupation.
The resolution “does nothing to free the hostages, improve the lives of civilians in Gaza or bring us closer to a ceasefire,“ US acting ambassador Dorothy Shea told the Assembly.
Instead, she charged it was “yet another performative action that erodes the credibility of this body.”
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