2024-03-22 16:24:00
The United Nations (UN) has played a leading role in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, but has never managed to intervene directly to stop or prevent aggression.
And although it has not done so in the current war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, its General Assembly has requested, in a non-binding manner, a ceasefire with the support of more than 100 members. Instead, different draft ceasefire resolutions presented to the Security Council have been vetoed; the most recent, presented by the United States, this Friday.
Why then does he not intervene directly?
The history is long, but the current confrontation, which began on October 7 with the brutal terrorist attack by Hamas, is part of a series of conflicts that began after a UN decision: the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine between two states, one Jewish and the other Arab, in 1947, which left – in theory – the city of Jerusalem under international control.
That was one of the first important resolutions of the multilateral organization created in 1945, and its consequences reach today.
The State of Israel was founded in 1948 on UN-designated territory, but a Palestinian state was not created at that time. Instead, a first war broke out, carried out by Egypt, Syria and Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, which entered the Mandate of Palestine to attack Israel.
In this conflict, the UN Security Council intervened by implementing several ceasefire periods through resolutions 50, 54 and 59, among others, although a request to deploy troops from the United States, France and Belgium to Jerusalem made by the UN mediator, Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, never materialized.
Israel ultimately won the war and consolidated its state, but more fighting followed in 1967 and 1973, all of which resulted in Israeli victories.
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