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UN chief urges Israeli settlement freeze
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"UN chief urges Israeli
settlement freeze"
"I continue to call on Israel to lift
the unacceptable conditions in Gaza and to
freeze settlement activities anywhere in the
occupied Palestinian territories, including
east Jerusalem," Ban told a news conference in
Abu Dhabi.
Ban's call comes a day after
Israeli media the Jerusalem municipal council
said Israel is to approve 1,400 new settler
homes in East Jerusalem, defying pressure to
halt settlement building that has stalled peace
talks with the Palestinians.
Israel has
annexed East Jerusalem and claims it as part of
its capital, while Palestinians want the area
as the capital of their future
state.
US-brokered peace negotiations
between Israel and the Palestinians have
deadlocked over the issue of illegal Israeli
settlement construction in the occupied West
Bank and East Jerusalem.
The
Palestinians walked out of direct peace talks
three weeks after they started in September
when Israel baulked at extending a 10-month
partial freeze on settlement construction in
the West Bank.
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