Despite UN resolution, Israel will build thousands more settler units

Angered by UN resolution, Israel says will build thousands more settler units

Israel plans to construct thousands more illegal settler units on occupied Palestinian territory in flagrant defiance of a recent UN Security Council resolution, which decried the Tel Aviv regime’s policy of settlement expansion and demanding the halt of such activities.

Hawzah News Agency (Occupied Palestine) - The media reported on Sunday, December 25, that the so-called Jerusalem al-Quds Local Planning and Building Committee is poised to approve some 5,600 housing units in East Jerusalem al-Quds.

The report added that the move comes as a response to the UNSC resolution, noting that 2,600 housing units are to be built in the illegal Gilo settlement in southwestern East Jerusalem al-Quds, 2,600 others in Givat HaMatos, and 400 units in the Ramat Shlomo settlement.

The deputy mayor of Jerusalem al-Quds Meir Turjuman, also wrote that he “did not care” about the United Nations or any other entity telling them what to do in the city.

Turjuman also said he was looking forward to the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump to “make up for the shortage in construction [of settler units] during [President Barack] Obama's eight-year tenure."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel "would not abide by the terms" of the "shameful anti-Israel resolution," and has even summoned the ambassadors of the UN Security Council member states in protest at the move.

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