Last update - 16:01 18/11/2006
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service - (click here for full story)
The UN General Assembly on Friday night overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning the errant shelling of a Beit Hanun house which killed some 20 Palestinians.
Representatives of 156 countries voted in favor of the resolution, seven objected and six abstained.Voting "no" were the United States, Israel, Australia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau. Abstaining were Canada, Ivory Coast, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
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Europe's envoys cast their votes unanimously in favor of the resolution.
Photo: Israel's UN ambassador Dan Gillerman
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