The United Nations General Assembly has voted in favour of resolution endorsing a UN-sponsored report into war crimes committed during Israel’s war on Gaza.
Apart from Israel and the United States, a number of European countries including Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and the Czech Republic, voted against the resolution.
Britain and France were among EU member nations who abstained.
Most developing countries voted in favour of endorsing the report.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian UN observer called it “an important night in the history of the General Assembly and the history of fighting against impunity and seeking accountability.”
Earlier, speaking ahead of the final UN vote, he said Goldstone report had concluded that the Israeli military onslaught “was planned in all of its phases as a deliberately disproportionate and systematic attack aimed at punishing, humiliating and terrorising the Palestinian civilian population”.
