THE United Nations Human Rights Council called on countries today to stop selling or shipping weapons to Israel, passing a sweeping non-binding resolution as global pressure grows for Tel Aviv’s war machine to be denied any further supplies.

At the meeting of the 47-country council, 28 member states voted in favour of the resolution, six opposed it and 13 abstained.

The United States and Germany were among those voting against it, while France and Japan abstained and Belgium, Finland and Luxembourg voted in favour.