NEW YORK – In a major diplomatic blow to Israel, the United Nations HumanRights Council (UNHCR) has adopted five resolutions against Tel Aviv,urging an international ban on arms sales to the regime over its atrocitiesin the occupied Palestinian territories.

The resolutions were adopted Friday at the end of the UNHCR’s 37th session,which lasted for a month in Geneva, slamming the Israeli regime’smistreatment of Palestinians and voicing support for the Palestinians’cause against the regime’s occupation of their homeland.

One of the resolutions is called “Ensuring accountability and justice forall violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,including East Jerusalem (al-Quds).”

The document, which was passed by 27 to 4 votes and 15 abstentions, urgedthe world community to stop selling arms to the regime in Israel.

The resolution called upon “all states to promote compliance underinternational law” with regard to Israeli actions “by ensuring that theirpublic authorities and private entities do not become involved ininternationally unlawful conduct, inter alia the provision of arms to endusers known or likely to use the arms in the commission of seriousviolations of international humanitarian and/or human rights law.”

Another of the five resolutions calls for an Israeli withdrawal from theGolan Heights, which the regime seized from Syria during the 1967 Six-DayWar. Tel Aviv continues to occupy two-thirds of the Syrian territory eversince, in a move that has never been recognized by the internationalcommunity.

The UN rights body also approved a resolution that called on Israel towithdraw to the pre-1967 lines as well as one that urged the Tel Avivregime to halt settlement activity.

The fifth document approved on Friday denounced Israel for human rightsabuses against the Palestinians.