The UN General Assembly today overwhelmingly approved a resolution renewing a demand that Israel and the Palestinians conduct independent and credible probes of alleged war crimes during the Gaza conflict 14 months ago.The non-binding resolution, sponsored by the Palestinian delegation along with several Arab and African countries at the United Nations, again calls on the Israelis and the Palestinians to conduct investigations. The vote in the 192-member body was 98 in favour, seven against and 31 abstentions. In the wake of the 22-day Israeli onslaught on Gaza that began in late December 2008, a UN enquiry panel accused both Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas, which rules the Palestinian coastal enclave, of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity. Some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed during the Israeli military blitz in response to unrelenting rocket-fire into Israel from Gaza.