MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, local media reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman approved the building of 2,500 housing units in the territory of the West Bank.
"This is a significant expansion deep in the West Bank that does have the capacity to undermine the credibility of a two-state solution," the spokesperson told the ABC News broadcaster.
The spokesperson also called on both sides "to avoid unilateral actions that diminish the prospects of a negotiated two-state solution.”
On December 23, 2016, the UN Security Council voted 14-0, with the United States abstaining, to pass a resolution calling on Israel to immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the West bank and east Jerusalem.
