During its annual gathering, the 21-member UNESCO World Heritage Committee adopted a new resolution that again ignores Jewish ties to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

UNESCO is the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization.

10 countries voted in favor, eight abstained and two opposed the text entitled “Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls,”. Eight “yes” votes were needed for the resolution to pass. One nation, Jamaica, was absent at the vote.

The 21 members of the committee are : Angola, Azerbaijan, lBurkina Faso, Croatia, Cuba, Finland, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.

The vote came a week after a similar resolution was approved by UNESCO’s Executive body, eliciting angry responses from Israel, several world leaders and even the UN organisation’s own director-general.

The resolution accuses Israel of various violations and refers to the Temple Mount compound solely by its Muslim names, “Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif,” and defined it only as “a Muslim holy site of worship.”

As the site of the two Biblical temples, the TempleMount is the holiest place in Judaism.

Unlike the resolution adopted by UNESCO earlier this week, Wednesday’s text did not mention the importance of Jerusalem’s Old City for “the three monotheistic religions.”

“This is yet another absurd resolution against the State of Israel, the Jewish people and historical truth,” Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama-Hacohen, said after the vote.