The Palestinian resistance factions hailed the world states who have voted against the US-sponsored draft resolution seeking to condemn Palestinian resistance group Hamas at the United Nations General Assembly.
Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri said the fact that the draft resolution has failed to gain a majority vote at UNGA is a slap on the US and Israel’s face and a confirmation of the legitimacy of anti-occupation resistance.
Islamic Jihad leader Daud Shehab said the results of the UNGA vote represent a heavy blow dealt to the US and Israel and their counterfeit narratives.
Fatah spokesperson Muneer al-Jaghoub said the US attempts to criminalize Palestinians’ national liberation struggle have been abortive. “The only terrorist party is Israel.”
Political bureau member of the Palestinian People’s Party Walid al-Awad said the US failure to condemn Hamas as a terror group is an indication of the universal support to the Palestinian cause.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Mujahideen Movement in Palestine along with other resistance factions also lauded the move which they dubbed another goal scored by the Palestinian resistance.
The 193-member UNGA voted 87-57 in favor of the US resolution Thursday while 33 members chose to abstain leaving Washington with a plurality vote that fell short of the two-thirds requirement to adopt the resolution.
The resolution attempted to condemn Hamas for carrying out rocket attacks against Israel and using “airborne incendiary devices” against Israelis living in occupied Palestinian lands.
The resolution came weeks after the Israeli military fired hundreds of rockets into Israel during a two-day flare-up of violence following a botched Israeli attack against a Palestinian anti-occupation commander.
