Overall Legal Framework The Right to Resist When addressing the illegality of the Israeli policy of suppression of Palestinian resistance, the legal framework of resistance itself must be clarified before addressing the lawfulness of the suppression. Palestinians, like anyone else, have an inalienable right to self-determination. This right was incorporated as Common Article 1 in the two human rights covenants; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), adopted in 1966. Later, in 1973, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution addressing the “Importance of the universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination and of the speedy granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples for the effective guarantee and observance of human rights,” specifically referring to both the South African and Palestinian people.6 In this resolution the UNGA reaffirmed: 1. the inalienable right of all people under colonial and foreign domination and alien subjugation to self-determination, freedom and independence in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, 2649 (XXV) of 30 November 1970 and 2787 (XXVI) of 6 December 1971; and, 2. the legitimacy of the peoples' struggle for liberation from colonial and foreign domination and alien subjugation by all available means, including armed struggle. 6 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution A/RES/3070 (XXVIII), 30 November 1973, operative para. 2 11