The UN General Assembly’s Tenth Emergency Special Session on Illegal Israeli Actions in Occupied East Jerusalem
and the Rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory passes a resolution (133-4, with 15 abstentions, as shown on the boards) reaffirming its condemnation of Israel’s illegal actions in the occupied territories and criticizing an Israeli Security Cabinet
decision a week earlier to “remove” Yasir Arafat
, whom it had besieged in the Palestinian Authority
’s Ramallah
headquarters (the Mukataa) since September 2002.
