A majority of 125 international locations within the UN Normal Meeting backed on Thursday an unprecedented open-ended conflict 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 occurred in Could 2021.
The UNGA vote got here after Israel requested to amend the UNHRC price range decision in order that the cash for the probe be excluded from the general UNHRC price range.
Solely 8 international locations voted in favour of the decision, together with Israel and the US, whereas 34 international locations abstained.
Palestine’s Everlasting Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, recommended the vote and all of the international locations that rejected Israel’s proposal.
He thanked the UNGA for approving all budgets of the programmes regarding the Palestinian trigger, together with his request to extend funding to the United Nations Aid and Works Company for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
The US envoy to the UN, who voted towards the probe, stated: “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.”
