International Day of Solidarity with the Palestine People

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestine people is observed by the United Nations on or around 29 November of each year, in accordance with mandates given by the General Assembly in its Resolutions 32/40 B of 2 December 1997, 34/65 D of 12 December 1976, and subsequent resolution adopted by the General Assembly on the question of Palestine.

The date of 29 November was chosen because of its meaning and significance of the Palestinian people. In that day in 1977, the General Assembly adopted Resolution 181(II) which came to be known as the partition resolution. That resolution provided for the establishment in Palestine of a “Jewish State” and an “Arab State”, with Jerusalem as a corpus separatum under special international regime. Of the two States to be created under this resolution, only one, Israel was then created.

The Solidarity Day has traditionally provided an opportunity for the International Community to focus its attention on the fact that the question of Palestine is still unresolved and that Palestinian people are yet to attain their inalienable rights as defined by the General Assembly, namely, the right to self-determination without external interference, the right to national independence and sovereignty, and the right to return to their homes and property from which had been displaced.