A majority of 125 nations within the UN Normal Meeting backed on Thursday an unprecedented open-ended struggle crimes probe towards Israel, information companies reported.
The probe was initially accredited in Could by UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) within the aftermath of the Israeli aggression on Gaza that passed off in Could 2021.
The UNGA vote got here after Israel requested to amend the UNHRC funds decision in order that the cash for the probe be excluded from the general UNHRC funds.
Solely 8 nations voted in favour of the decision, together with Israel and the US, whereas 34 nations abstained.
Palestine’s Everlasting Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, recommended the vote and all of the nations that rejected Israel’s proposal.
He thanked the UNGA for approving all budgets of the programmes referring to the Palestinian trigger, together with his request to extend funding to the United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
The US envoy to the UN, who voted towards the probe, mentioned: “The US will proceed to oppose this [probe] and to search for alternatives in Geneva to revisit its mandate, which sadly was handed when the US didn’t have a seat on the UNHRC.”
