Israeli envoy slams French support for UN resolution

"France would not do those a favor who fire missiles at its own cities. Support for this resolution means doing terrorists a favor," Dan Gillerman told Israeli public radio.

The UN General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly passed a resolution urging an immediate end to all acts of Israeli and Palestinian violence, including an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian rocket firing into Israel.

Some 156 countries, including the 25-member European Union, voted in favor of the non-binding resolution, introduced by Qatar on behalf of Arab states.

Seven -- the United States, Israel, Australia, Nauru, Palau, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia -- voted against while six, including Canada, abstained.

The text also asks the UN secretary general to set up a fact-finding mission to probe a botched Israeli shelling of private homes in the Gaza town of Beit Hanun on November 8 which killed 19 Palestinians, mainly children and women.

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