Israel has informed the United Nations Human Rights Council that it will follow the United States in withdrawing its participation, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Thursday.

This decision was reached in light of the ongoing and unrelenting institutional bias against Israel in the Human Rights Council, which has been persistent sice its inception in 2006,” he wrote in a letter to Council President Jürg Lauber,

In the UNHRC, Israel is the only country with an agenda item dedicated solely to it,' Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said