The envoy also called on the Security Council to seriously consider providing global protection to the Palestinian people.
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Even the United States, a long time ally of Israel, spoke out against the building of illegal settlements in Palestinian territory, with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power saying they were “strongly opposed” to these Israeli activities. “They rightly raise fundamental questions about Israel’s commitment to a two-state solution”, he added, referring to the internationally backed plan for two States, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace within secure borders.
“They want to destroy a state and they say it out loud”, he said in a statement.
He urged that both sides must take steps to resume negotiations on the basis of relevant Council resolutions, the Quartet road map, the Madrid Principles, the Arab Peace Initiative and relevant agreements between them.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the home of the Palestinian teen accused of the fatal stabbing in Otniel would be demolished as a deterrent.
He said that Palestinians must be allowed development in land classified Area C, where Israel has complete civil and military authority and which comprises more than 60 percent of the West Bank.
Last week there were attacks in two West Bank settlements. Police found two homemade pipe bombs near the scene of the attack, Samri said.
Netanyahu then went on to paint all Palestinians with the brush of extremism while completely ignoring how the illegal settlements and some Jewish extremists – expanding under his orders – are ruining lives of Palestinians in the embattled region.
The UN is supposed to maintain worldwide peace and security and take effective measures to respond to any threats to these ends, according to the agency’s charter.
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom also drew Israeli ire earlier this month after calling for an investigation into whether alleged Palestinian attackers had been victims of extrajudicial murder by Israeli forces.
The Palestinians complained that Israel was building settlements on land they claim for a future state.
Bosah pressed further that such actions undermined a two-State solution, which the worldwide community broadly accepted as the only path to resolving the question of Palestine. Another woman stabbed in the assault in the settlement of Beit Horon sustained moderate injuries.
There has been a surge in violence between Palestinians and Israelis since the start of October 2015.
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About 400,000 Israeli settlers live alongside around 2.5 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
