New Delhi: India has voted in favour of a United Nations resolution that condemns Israeli settlements in Palestine. The resolution, condemning settlement activities in “Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan”, was approved on Thursday.
Among the seven countries that opposed it are the United States and Canada. Eighteen countries abstained from the vote.This comes weeks after India abstained from a vote on a UN resolution calling for “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce” between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
