United Nations, Nov 27: Israel has withdrawn a United Nations resolution on child victims of Palestinian attacks, its first resolution ever presented to the General Assembly, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman announced yesterday. Gillerman said the resolution was withdrawn because it became "the victim of a hostile takeover" by Egypt, which attached amendments to the proposal.

"Today is a shameful for the UN and a sad day for the humanity," Gillerman said at a press conference late yesterday.

Israeli diplomats "will no longer sit back and be the target of Israel bashing ... And biased resolutions," he said. The Israeli resolution, presented October 29, was "a mirror of the resolution on Palestinian children" approved earlier by the General Assembly, Gillerman said.

The resolution dealt with the effects of Palestinian terror on Israeli children, according to Israeli diplomats.

The resolution condemning the suffering inflicted on Palestinian children by Israel's armed forces, made no mention of Israeli children killed in suicide bombings or other Palestinian attacks. Bureau Report