The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution asking Israel to pay Lebanon more than $US850 million ($A919.66 million) in damages for an oil spill caused by an Israeli air force attack on oil storage tanks during its war with Hezbollah in July 2006.
The assembly voted 170-6 in favour of the non-binding resolution, with three abstentions.
Israel, Australia, the United States, Canada, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands voted no.
The resolution says "the environmental disaster" caused by the destruction of the tanks resulted in an oil slick that covered the entire Lebanese coastline and extended to the Syrian coastline, causing extensive pollution.
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