Ending the Illegal Occupation of Palestine: UN Forum on Palestinian Rights - Plenary III & Closing

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People convened its first 2025 civil society engagement “International Action Towards Ending the Nakba and Realizing the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People”, on the margins of the 77th commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba, on 15 May 2025 and 16 May 2025 in the ECOSOC Chamber at United Nations Headquarters.

The third plenary held on 16 May 2025 focused on “Implementing General Assembly Resolution E-10/24: Ending the Illegal Occupation”. That resolution welcomed the July 2024 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice and demanded that Israel bring to an end without delay its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Michael Lynk, former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, criticized the role of international politics — particularly that of the United States — in preventing the enforcement of hundreds of UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions. Recalling that the International Criminal Court called on Israel to withdraw from occupied territories and immediately halt all settlement activities, he said the Assembly’s subsequent resolution — A/ES-10/L.31/Rev.1 adopted on 18 September 2024 — reiterated the demand and asked that Israel provide reparations for damages caused in the occupied territories a year from the date of adoption. “The occupation must end and with deliberate speed, and consequences must flow from the occupation not ending after 18 September 2025,” he added.

PLENARY III: Implementing the GA Res. E-10/24: Ending the Illegal Occupation

Mr. Michael Lynk, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
Mr. Magnus Walan, Head of Office, Diakonia Sweden
Ms. Alys Samson Estape, Spokesperson, RESCOP (Red Solidaria Contra la Ocupación Palestina)
Ms. Roshan Dadoo, Member, Palestinian Solidarity Campaign South Africa& Coordinator, BDS South Africa
Mr. Philip Farah, Director, Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace

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