The Biden administration abstained a General Assembly resolution affirming the right of return for Palestinian refugees to sovereign Israel.

In doing so, it broke with the voting pattern on the Zionist entity set by former US President Donald Trump in which all such texts received an automatic “no” vote.

The Obama administration, however, had traditionally abstained from this particular text, which comes annually before the UNGA.

“This year, the United States returns to a position of abstention on the text ‘Assistance to Palestine Refugees,’” American Deputy Ambassador Richard Mills told the UNGA’s Fourth Committee late Tuesday afternoon.

He spoke as the committee gave initial approval to six anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian draft resolutions that will come up later this year at the UNGA plenum for a final vote.

Three of those texts affirmed the work of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which services 5.7 million Palestinian refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

All three of those resolutions call for the right of return for Palestinian refugees to their land or for their receipt of compensation for the property they lost when they fled their homes due to the Israel occupation.

Source: Israeli media