Israel votes against UNGA resolution on Russia invasion of Ukraine
Israel voted against a UN General Assembly resolution designating Russia as “an aggressor state” while demanding the withdrawal of its troops from Ukraine.
Israel was among 18 countries including the United States, Russia, and North Korea to vote against it.
For the past two years, Israel voted in favour of UN resolutions condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as did the US under the Biden administration.
The United States for decades has repeatedly voted against any resolutions denouncing Israel for its decades-long attacks and occupation of Palestinian territory.
Adoption of today's UNGA resolution on an early & just peace in Ukraine confirms the importance of upholding the UN Charter & respecting all countries' territorial integrity & sovereignty.
Peace in Ukraine. In line with the Charter.
✅ 93 votes in favor
❌ 18 votes against pic.twitter.com/JYp7d5K0Sv
— 🇪🇺EU at UN-NY (@EUatUN) February 24, 2025
Israel: Relations with EU should not be ‘held hostage’ over Palestine
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says he does not want his country’s relationship with Europe to be “held hostage” by views on the conflict with Palestinians.
Saar held talks with senior European officials in Brussels as the bloc considered a role in the reconstruction of Gaza following last month’s fragile ceasefire deal.
“Israeli-EU relations must not be held hostage to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Saar said in a news conference.
Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign policy chief, outlined a range of worries about the situation in war-battered Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
“We have constantly called on all parties, including Israel, to respect international humanitarian law,” she said, adding that Europe “cannot hide our concern when it comes to the West Bank”.
EU raises ‘concerns’ over Israel’s West Bank assault
The European Union raised with Israel its ongoing raids and forced evacuations in the occupied West Bank as well as the fragile ceasefire in Gaza at a meeting with the country’s foreign minister in Brussels.
“We are closely watching developments and cannot hide our concern when it comes to the West Bank,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.
Israel said on Sunday that its troops would remain for many months in refugee camps in the northern West Bank after 40,000 Palestinians living there were displaced by an intensifying, weeks-long military incursion.
The expansion of Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank comes as tensions surge over a fragile truce deal in Gaza, which has largely halted more than 16 months of devastating war.
