Statement backed by all UN Security Council members says settlements ‘impede peace’

View of the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumin and the area known as E1, in the West Bank, on January 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
View of the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumin and the area known as E1, in the West Bank, on January 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

UNITED NATIONS — The UN Security Council expresses its “dismay” with plans by Israel’s hard-right government to retroactively legalize outposts in the West Bank, warning in a statement that such measures “impede peace.”

“The Security Council reiterates that continuing Israeli settlement activities are dangerously imperiling the viability of the two-state solution,” the council says in a statement supported by all 15 members but which does not have the binding force of a resolution considered last week.

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