PARIS, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- France does not want to "enter in a dispute" with Israel after their ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman criticized France for "doing terrorists a favor," Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei said on Monday.

    "We would not like to comment the declarations of Ambassador Dan Gillerman, neither would we like to enter in a dispute of the resolution of the UN General Assembly which had been adopted by 156 votes," Mattei said.

    Mattei also said that France remained "quite worried" about the "continued escalating of violence in Gaza and South Israel," emphasizing that "force could not bring an enduring solution to the Israeli-Palestinian issue."

    The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Friday, urging an immediate end to all acts of Israeli and Palestinian violence, including an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian rocket firing into Israel.

    Some 156 countries, including the 25-member European Union, voted in favor of the non-binding resolution, introduced by Qatar on behalf of Arab states.

    Gillerman on Sunday criticized France for "doing terrorists a favor" by pushing for the adoption of the resolution.