Israel rebukes UN Security Council anti-settlement statement, criticizes US support
Members of the UN Security Council issued on Monday a rare joint statement, the first in nine years, condemning recent Israeli measures for West Bank settlement expansion.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office slammed on Monday a rare statement by the United Nations Security Council, condemning Israeli settlement expansion in occupied Palestinian Territories as “blind” and one-sided.
“[It] denies the rights of Jews to live in our historic homeland and ignores the Palestinian terrorist attacks in Jerusalem over the past month,” the Israeli leader said.
“[The Security Council statement] turns a blind eye to the fact that the Palestinian Authority subsidizes terrorism and pays the families of terrorists,” Netanyahu added.
In a rare public criticism of Washington, the Israeli reaction said the Security Council statement “should not have been made and the United States should not have signed on to it.”
