UN General Assembly
1988

to lag behind other regions which have begun to proceed steadily towards just and lasting solutions. In recent years the Palestine question has witnessed attempts to impose a fait accompli and to entrench the Israeli occupation. Nevertheless, the Palestinian uprising - the intifadah - has defied all forms of suppression and coercion. The heroic Palestinian people, in their firm belief in their just cause, have succeeded in imposing recognition of "their existence and in gaining world-wide support for their legitimate national rights. The Palestinian people have thus made it impossible to return to the pre-uprising conditions. So the escalating acts of repression perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces are futile. These acts include expatriation, administrative detention without trial, imprisonment, confiscation of property, the blowing up of houses, torture, the closing down of schools and universities and the freezing of labour unions' activities. They further contravene the rules of I international law and the Geneva conventions and human rights. Such acts are strongly condemned by Egypt, as they have been by the entire international community.