The Security Council adopts Resolution 641, which deplores Israel’s ongoing deportation of Palestinian civilians, calls on Israel to ensure their safe and immediate return, and reaffirms that the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilians in time of War was applicable to the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem, and to the other occupied Arab territories. Fourteen countries voted for the resolution, and none voted against it; the United States abstained.
