The Council passed a resolution endorsing the Goldstone report that singled out Israel’s actions but not Hamas.
The UN debate comes as Washington faces an Arab backlash over US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s praise for Israel’s offer to ease the growth of its settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Clinton arrived in Cairo on Tuesday for hastily convened talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after she was roundly criticized for praising as “unprecedented” a pledge by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to limit settlement growth.
The Israeli move falls far short of previous US demands for a complete halt to all settlement activity.
Clinton had also called for a speedy resumption of peace talks that were suspended during the Gaza War over the new year, despite Palestinian insistence that Israel must first freeze settlement activity.
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