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