India has voted in favour of a United Nations General Assembly resolution that condemns Israeli settler activities in Palestinian territory. The resolution was put to vote amid the deadly conflict that Israeli forces and Hamas militants are currently locked in in the Gaza Strip. Titled "Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan", the resolution was adopted on Thursday with 145 votes in favour. 

Meanwhile, seven member nations opposed the document, and 18 countries abstained from voting. Canada, Hungary, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, and the US voted against the UNGA resolution.

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"By [the resolution's] terms, the Assembly would condemn settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan and any activities involving the confiscation of land, the disruption of the livelihood of protected persons, the forced transfer of civilians and the annexation of land, whether de facto or through national legislation," the UN said in a communique.

This came weeks after India, along with 44 other nations, abstained from voting on a Jordanian-drafted resolution that called for "immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce" between Israeli forces and Hamas militants in besieged Gaza.

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Israel's counteroffensive in response to the October 7 Hamas rampage has so far claimed more than 11,500 lives in the Gaza Strip, as per authorities of the Hamas-controlled Palestinian exclave. On Saturday, Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, was struck by bombing.

(Gaza Strip under Israeli bombardment after Hamas unleashed an onslaught in Israel last week. Pic Credits: Reuters)

The Israeli military has refuted allegations that its troops were behind the bombing. It has, however, acknowledged its soldiers being involved in fighting with Hamas militants near the medical facility. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have said they are working with Gaza's hospital staff to provide safe passage southward for Gazans from the medical facility.