United Nations Security Council draft resolution S/2024/173
Date: 2024-02-20 (meeting 9552)
Agenda: The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question
Vetoed by: USA

United Nations
Security Council
Distr.: General
20 February 2024
Original: English
S/2024/173

Algeria: draft resolution
The Security Council,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling all its relevant resolutions on the situation in the Middle East,
including the Palestinian question,
Recalling also the Order delivered on 26 January 2024 by the International
Court of Justice indicating provisional measures to Israel in the case concerning the
application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide (South Africa v. Israel) in relation to the right of the Palestinian people in
the Gaza Strip to be protected from all acts within the scope of Article II and
Article III of the Convention,
Recalling further the letter dated 6 December 2023 of the Secretary-General,
under Article 99 of the Charter of the United Nations, addressed to the President of
the Security Council (S/2023/962),
Reiterating its demand that all parties to the conflict comply with their
obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and
international human rights law, in particular with regard to the conduct of hostilities
and the protection of civilians and civilian objects, and recalling the obligation to
respect and protect humanitarian relief and medical personnel as well as medical
infrastructure, medical transports and the wounded and sick, and to refrain from
depriving the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip of essential goods and
services indispensable to their survival and humanitarian assistance, consistent with
international humanitarian law and international human rights law,
Reaffirming the obligations of all parties regarding the provision of
humanitarian assistance, and its demand that they allow, facilitate and enable the
immediate, full, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale
directly to the Palestinian civilian population throughout the Gaza Strip,
Welcoming the appointment of Ms. Sigrid Kaag, as Senior Humanitarian and
Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza pursuant to its resolution 2720, underscoring
the need to provide her team with the resources and support necessary to fulfil her
mandate, and emphasizing the urgent need to expand the flow of humanitarian
assistance to civilians in the Gaza Strip,
Reaffirming its strong concern for the disproportionate and grave effect that the
conflict is having on the civilian population, with particular impact on the lives and
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well-being of children, women, and persons with disabilities as well as other civilians
in vulnerable situations,
Expressing grave concern over the dire and urgently deteriorating humanitarian
situation in the Gaza Strip and the adverse conditions of life for and suffering of the
Palestinian civilian population,
Expressing also grave concern over the impact of the situation in Gaza on
regional and international peace and security,
Emphasizing the imperative of accountability for all violations of international
law,
Stressing that the Gaza Strip constitutes an integral part of the territory occupied
in 1967, and reiterating the vision of the two-state solution, with the Gaza Strip as
part of the Palestinian State,
1.
all parties;
2.
Demands an immediate humanitarian ceasefire that must be respected by
Reiterates its demand that all parties scrupulously comply with their
obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and
international human rights law, in particular including with regard to the protection
of civilians and civilian objects, and in this regard deplores all attacks against
civilians and civilian objects, as well as all violence and hostilities against civilians,
and all acts of terrorism;
3. Rejects forced displacement of the Palestinian civilian population,
including women and children, in violation of international law, including
international humanitarian law and international human rights law, and demands an
immediate end to any such violations;
4.
Demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, as well
as ensuring humanitarian access to address medical needs of all hostages, and further
demands that the parties comply with their obligations under international law in
relation to all persons they detain and respect their human rights;
5.
Reiterates its call for the full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian
access into and throughout the entire Gaza Strip and for the urgent, continuous and
sufficient provision of humanitarian assistance at scale to the Palestinian civilian
population, including by facilitating the use of all available routes to and throughout
the entire Gaza Strip, including border crossings, in accordance with international
humanitarian law and its relevant resolutions;
6. Demands the implementation of its resolutions 2712 (2023) and 2720
(2023) in full;
7.
Reiterates its unwavering commitment to the vision of the two-State
solution where two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace
within secure and recognized borders, consistent with international law and relevant
UN resolutions, and in this regard stresses the importance of unifying the Gaza Strip
with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority;
8. Emphasizes the importance of preventing further escalation in the region,
and, in this regard, calls on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and calls on all
those with influence on the parties to work toward this objective;
9. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.
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Voting result: 13 yes, 1 no, 1 abstentions
Votes by member:
country: Algeria
vote: Y
country: China
vote: Y
country: Ecuador
vote: Y
country: France
vote: Y
country: Guyana
vote: Y
country: Japan
vote: Y
country: Malta
vote: Y
country: Mozambique
vote: Y
country: Republic of Korea
vote: Y
country: Russian Federation
vote: Y
country: Sierra Leone
vote: Y
country: Slovenia
vote: Y
country: Switzerland
vote: Y
country: United States of America
vote: N
country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
vote: A