India on Friday voted in favour of a draft UN General Assembly resolution that said Palestine is qualified and should be admitted as a full member of the United Nations and recommended that the Security Council “reconsider” the matter “favourably”.

The resolution got 143 votes in favour, including by India. Nine countries including the US and Israel voted against the resolution while another 25 abstained.

The 193-member General Assembly met for an emergency special session where the Arab Group resolution ‘Admission of new Members to the United Nations’, in support of the State of Palestine’s full membership in the UN, was presented by the UAE, as Chair of the Arab Group in May.

The resolution said that the State of Palestine is qualified for membership in the United Nations in accordance with Article 4 of the Charter of the United Nations and “should therefore be admitted to membership in the United Nations.

“With this new precedent, we may see here representatives of ISIS or Boko Haram that will sit among us,”  Israel’s UN ambassador Gilad Erdan said, referring to two Islamic terrorist groups. He said it would give “the rights of a state to an entity that is already partly controlled by terrorists, and will be replaced by a force of child-murdering Hamas rapists.”

US deputy ambassador to the UN Robert Wood called the resolution “an unproductive text.” While “our vote does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood,” Wood said after the resolution passed, “it remains the US view that unilateral measures at the UN and on the ground will not advance this goal.”