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The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (Arabic: اليوم الدولي للتضامن مع الشعب الفلسطيني) is a UN-organized observance. Events are held at the United Nations headquarters in New York , [ 1 ] as well as at the United Nations offices at Geneva , [ 2 ] Vienna and Nairobi .
The gathering came on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. In 1977, the United Nations ' General Assembly called for the day to be observed annually on Nov. 29.
On April 24, 2010, Bianca Zammit, a 28-year-old activist from Malta, was shot in the thigh with live ammunition by IDF soldiers during a demonstration in the so-called "buffer zone" inside Gaza Strip. Two Palestinian demonstrators were also shot during the same demonstration in Al Maghazi Refugee Camp. [32] [33]
This unit was created in order to prepare, under the guidance of the committee, studies and publications relating to the rights of the Palestinian people, resolutions relating to Palestinian rights of the various U.N. bodies and the actions the U.N. was taking to promote the attainment of Palestinian rights. [5]
United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19 was a resolution accepting Palestine [1] as a non-member observer state in the United Nations General Assembly. [2] It was adopted by the sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly on 29 November 2012, the date of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and the 65th anniversary of the adoption by the ...
The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is observed annually to commemorate the adoption on November 29, 1947, of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II), which provided for the partition of Palestine into two States. The observance takes place at UN Headquarters in New York and at the UN Offices at Geneva ...
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An event organized by the Campaign on the "Day of Return", 2013. The Global Campaign to Return to Palestine was officially established on the Day of Return, [2] on 15 May 2013, though it had been operating long before. More than 45 events were arranged around the world in affiliation with international NGOs that support the Palestinian Cause.