Israel has been highly critical of a UN General Assembly resolution that calls it to compensate Beirut for the damages caused by a major oil spill that was a result of an Israeli air force strike during the Israel-Hezbollah War in July 2006.

„It‘s the sort of UN decision that we‘re used to, mixing alternative history, manipulation politicization and self-interested narrow-mindedness,“ the Israeli mission to the UN said in a statement Friday night, AP reports.