UN General Assembly
1969

of the national soil of three Member States of the United Nations, the result of premeditated armed aggression. For over two years, substantial parts of Jordan, the United Arab Republic and Syria have been under occupation. The occupied areas, including the holiest spot where the world’s most cherished shrines are located, have undergone physical destruction and change. Villages in the occupied areas have been bulldozed and obliterated by the occupying forces. Masses of people have been dispossessed, expelled from their homes, arrested, insulted, tortured or terrorized. The social, cultural and economic life of the civilian population under occupation has been disrupted and shattered. Israeli military arrogance has expressed itself in daily shelling and bombardment against the civilian population beyond the cease-fire areas. The Israeli authorities have deliberately defied all efforts of the United Nations to intervene effectively or usefully on behalf of justice and peace. The mission of the Secretary-General’s Special Representative, empowered and authorized by Security Council resolution 242 (1967), was obstructed by Israeli intransigence. This Security Council resolution attempting to outline a