The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid for the territory to become a full U.N. member by recognizing it as qualified to join and recommending the U.N. Security Council “reconsider the matter favorably.”
The 193-member General Assembly convened in New York on Friday for an emergency special session on the Gaza crisis and passed a resolution that upgrades the Palestinian territories’ status at the U.N. as an observer state without offering it full membership.
The Assembly stated in the resolution that “the State of Palestine is qualified for membership in the United Nations ” and urged the Security Council to “reconsider the matter favorably.”…