Summary
The General Assembly’s resolution 80/116, adopted on 12 December 2025, which welcomes the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion of 22 October 2025 answering resolution 79/232, summarizes the Court’s findings (a)–(f) — Israel as occupying Power must ensure essential supplies, agree to and facilitate relief including by UNRWA without impeding it, protect relief and medical personnel and facilities, respect the prohibitions on forcible transfer and on starvation as a method of warfare, allow ICRC visits to detainees, fulfil human rights obligations, cooperate in good faith with the United Nations, and ensure full respect for the United Nations’ privileges, immunities and premises inviolability — affirms those obligations in detail for Israel as occupying Power and as Member State, demands compliance without delay including immediately allowing life-saving assistance, and urges all States to ensure full implementation of the opinion (Resolution 80/116: Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third States (12 December 2025), PDF p.1-6).
What the file is
United Nations document A/RES/80/116, General Assembly, Distr.: General, 16 December 2025, Eightieth session, Agenda item 123, 6 PDF pages, about 2,752 words in the text copy. Adopted at the 61st plenary meeting on 12 December 2025, without reference to a Main Committee (A/80/L.26). The text copy is clean and matches the original. No vote count is given in the file.
Section by section
- Preamble (PDF p.1-2). Charter, self-determination and inadmissibility of acquisition of territory by force; decision 80/506 endorsing the New York Declaration; grave concern at the refugees’ dire situation and the complete blocking of aid into Gaza from 2 March 2025; Palestinian Authority reform efforts and reconciliation; Israel not entitled to sovereignty on account of occupation; respect for the Court held essential; resolution 79/232 and its question reproduced in full; the Court commended for accelerating procedure under Article 103 of its Rules.
- The opinion summarized (PDF p.2-3). The opinion of 22 October 2025 (A/80/502) received; findings (a)–(f) summarized as in the Summary, covering IHL duties, human rights law, good-faith cooperation, Article 105 privileges and immunities, and articles II, V, VI and VII of the Privileges and Immunities Convention.
- Preamble close (PDF p.3). The ceasefire agreement announced 29 September 2025 and endorsed in Sharm el-Sheikh on 13 October 2025 welcomed, with the United States, Qatar, Egypt and Türkiye’s facilitating role and the commitment to distribute assistance without interference through the United Nations, its agencies and the ICRC; common article 1 of the Geneva Conventions emphasized.
- Operative paragraphs 1-4 (PDF p.4-5). Paragraph 1 welcomes the opinion; paragraph 2 expresses grave concern at the humanitarian situation, especially in Gaza; paragraph 3 affirms Israel’s occupying-Power obligations (a)–(g), including administering for the local population’s benefit, the unconditional relief-scheme obligation, fair and non-discriminatory distribution without violence against civilians seeking relief, and the prohibition on restricting United Nations, organization and third State presence to a degree forcing the population to leave; paragraph 4 affirms Israel’s Member-State obligations (a)–(e), including good-faith cooperation, no unilateral decision on United Nations presence, no unilateral revocation of privileges and immunities, and use of the existing legal framework for abuse concerns.
- Operative paragraphs 5-8 (PDF p.5-6). Paragraph 5 demands compliance without delay in items (a)–(g) as in the Summary; paragraph 6 urges States, regional organizations and the United Nations system to support self-determination, continue assistance to the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority, and pursue full implementation of the opinion; paragraphs 7-8 reaffirm permanent UN responsibility and appreciate the Secretary-General’s efforts.
Key passages
- “Welcomes the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice of 22 October 2025 on the obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory” (operative paragraph 1, PDF p.4)
- “Is under an unconditional obligation to agree to and facilitate relief schemes if the local population is inadequately supplied” (operative paragraph 3 (c), PDF p.4, affirming the opinion)
Evidence the work relies on
A General Assembly resolution, not an evidentiary work. Its evidence is the advisory opinion of 22 October 2025 (A/80/502), whose findings it summarizes and then affirms paragraph by paragraph, together with the New York Declaration endorsed by decision 80/506 and the Sharm el-Sheikh ceasefire endorsement it welcomes. It gives no aid, casualty or refugee figures.
Analysis
The resolution completes the 79/232 cycle in under a year: request in December 2024, opinion in October 2025, affirmation in December 2025. Its paragraph 3 (g) is the opinion’s sharpest edge as the Assembly states it — a limit on restricting relief presence defined by its effect, conditions forcing the population to leave — and paragraph 4 (d) answers the dispute that triggered the request by denying a unilateral-assessment route around Charter obligations. Unlike ES-10/15 in 2004, it creates no new machinery; its follow-up is the paragraph 6 urging of implementation by all States.
People, organizations, places and events
UN General Assembly Resolution 80/116, UNRWA, International Court of Justice, International Committee of the Red Cross, Gaza, Palestinian Authority, Qatar
Concepts
Self-determination, Two-state solution
How it relates to other sources
- Resolution 79/232: Request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third States (19 December 2024) is the request this resolution answers, and its question is reproduced here in full.
- Resolution ES-10/15: Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (20 July 2004) performed the same acknowledging function for the 2004 opinion, but added a register of damage and a reconvene decision that this resolution does not repeat.
- Resolution 2803 (2025) on Gaza, with the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict (17 November 2025) endorsed the Comprehensive Plan arising from the same September–October 2025 ceasefire sequence this resolution welcomes.
Open questions
- No vote count is given in the file.
- The opinion document A/80/502 is summarized, not reproduced, so the Court’s reasoning beyond findings (a)–(f) cannot be checked from this file.
- The ceasefire agreement’s text and the New York Declaration’s text are welcomed and endorsed by reference, not reproduced in this file.
Coverage
PDF p.1-6 of 6, read in full.