Israel has decided to bar a U.N. team from entering Israel or the West Bank for a planned investigation of Jewish settlements into how Israeli settlements may be infringing on the rights of the Palestinians, the Foreign Ministry said.

“There was a decision by the foreign ministry to sever work contacts with the organisation,” ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told AFP, adding that Israel had yet to formally inform the council of its decision.

“This hypocritical organisation has nothing to do with human rights. Its bias and lack of objectivity are obvious and we have no reason to cooperate with it,” he told Israeli public radio.

Israel accuses the council of having a pronounced anti-Israel bias because of what it says is its disproportionate focus on Israeli policy toward the Palestinians.

The resolution was adopted by the 47-member council by 36 votes in favour and 10 abstentions. Only the United States voted against it.

Israel has moved 500,000 Israelis to the West Bank and east Jerusalem since capturing the areas, along with Gaza, in the 1967 Mideast war, according to Al arabiya.

Israel has had uneasy relations with the U.N. for decades, in large part because of the pro-Palestinian majority in the General Assembly, though the United States has used its veto power multiple times to block anti-Israel resolutions in the Security Council. Israel halted its marginal funding to UNESCO in the fall after the U.N. cultural agency recognized Palestine as a member.

Relations with the U.N. were especially acrimonious over a U.N.-commissioned report by South African jurist Richard Goldstone on Israel’s military offensive in Gaza in 2009, aimed at stopping daily rocket attacks. Israel refused to cooperate with Goldstone’s team, though it didn’t bar it from entering.