The 47-nation body didn’t call for similar payments by Palestinians to Israelis. The resolution was opposed by the United States and five European countries.

Israeli Ambassador Aharon Leshno-Yaar said the resolution was biased and defamatory, and would do nothing to bring Palestinians and Israelis closer together.

The proposal by Pakistan was passed by a majority of 29 to 6, with 11 abstentions. One country, Gabon, didn’t vote.

The resolution also suggested that the International Committee of the Red Cross should investigate Israel’s alleged use of white phosphorus, an incendiary munition, during the conflict that ended in January 2009.

The council, which has been criticized for excessively focusing on Israel in the past, approved four other resolutions condemning the Jewish state on Wednesday.

“The council is too often exploited as a platform from which to single out Israel, which undermines its credibility,” said US envoy Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe.

EU countries were split, with Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovakia opposing the resolution and Belgium, France and Britain abstaining.

The resolution, backed by African and Asian states who hold a majority in the Geneva-based council, called on Israel and the Palestinians to comply with the recommendations of a UN-appointed expert panel to conduct independent investigations into the three-week war.

The UN General Assembly last month voted to give both sides five more months to complete the probes after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reported that he could not determine whether the parties had conducted credible investigations.

The rights body also narrowly passed a resolution condemning Islamaphobic behavior, including Switzerland’s minaret building ban, despite some states’ major reservations.

The resolution, which was criticized by the United States as “an instrument of division,” “strongly condemns... the ban on the construction of minarets of mosques and other recent discriminatory measures” passed in November.

These measures “are manifestations of Islamophobia that stand in sharp contradiction to international human rights obligations concerning freedoms of religions,” said the resolution.

Such acts would “fuel discrimination, extremism and misperception leading to polarization and fragmentation with dangerous unintended and unforeseen consequences,” it charged.

Some 20 countries voted in favor of the resolution entitled “combating defamation of religions,” 17 voted against and eight abstained.

The resolution also “expresses deep concern ... that Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism.” It “regrets the laws or administrative measures specifically designed to control and monitor Muslim minorities, thereby stigmatizing them and legitimizing the discrimination they experience.” Putting forward the resolution on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Pakistan’s ambassador Zamir Akram said that the specific references to Islam in the text “reflect the existing regrettable situation in some parts of the world where Muslims are being targeted.” However, the United States and the European Union pointed out that the concept of defamation did not square with discrimination and warned that the resolution could be misused to hinder freedom of speech.

“The European Union believes that reconciling the notion of defamation with discrimination is a problematic endeavor,” French ambassador Jean-Baptiste Mattei said on behalf of the bloc.

The United States also slammed the resolution as an “ineffective way to address” concerns about discrimination and said that it “cannot agree with prohibiting speech” as a method to fight discrimination.