In 1977, the General Assembly called for the annual observance of 29 November as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (resolution 32/40 B). On that day, in 1947, the Assembly adopted the resolution on the partition of Palestine (resolution 181 (II))
In resolution 60/37 of 1 December 2005, the Assembly requested the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Division for Palestinian Rights, as part of the observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on 29 November, to continue to organize an annual exhibit on Palestinian rights or a cultural event in cooperation with the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the UN.
The resolution on the observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People also encourages Member States to continue to give the widest support and publicity to the observance of the Day of Solidarity.
2023 Exhibit on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba
Palestine: A Land with a People
29 November 2023 – 8 January 2024
An exhibit entitled “Palestine – a Land with a People,” was inaugurated on 29 November 2023 and will remain on display at UNHQ in the Visitors’ Lobby in New York until 8 January 2024.
The exhibit commemorates the Palestinian Nakba (meaning catastrophe), a deeply traumatic event, which took place during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. This exhibit showcases photographs, videos and art depicting different episodes in the Palestinian journey before, during, and after the Nakba, when more than half of the Palestinian people were expelled from, or fled their homes during violence and war from 1947 to 1949. It serves as a reminder that close to 6 million Palestinians remain refugees to this day, scattered throughout the region. Hundreds of thousands of these refugees have experienced an additional forced displacement while thousands were killed, during the 2023 Gaza war, amid a situation described by the UN Secretary-General as a “humanitarian catastrophe”.
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