A/RES/78/251 GA

United Nations A/RES/78/251 General Assembly Distr.: General 28 December 2023 23-26266 (E) 040124 *2326266* Seventy-eighth session Agenda item 134 Proposed programme budget for 2024 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2023 [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/78/662, para. 83)] 78/251. Proposed programme budget for 2024: section 26, Palestine refugees The General Assembly 1. Recognizes the extraordinary humanitarian work that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East performs; 2. Expresses condolences to the Agency for the loss of its staff members, which stands at 136 and growing, and who have suffered unprecedented fatalities in 2023, which represents the highest number of United Nations fatalities ever recorded in a single conflict; 3. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the killing of Agency staff and refugees sheltered under the United Nations flag; 4. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the destruction of buildings under the United Nations flag; 5. Calls for respect and protection, consistent with international humanitarian law, of all civilian and humanitarian facilities, including hospitals and other medical facilities, as well as their means of transport and equipment, schools, places of worship and United Nations facilities, as well as all of the humanitarian and medical personnel and journalists, media professionals and associated personnel in armed conflict in the region. 50th (resumed) plenary meeting 22 December 2023

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