Reporting that over the past three months, Israel has advanced 22 plans for some 1,200 housing units for one area of the West Bank, a United Nations envoy warned Monday that such ongoing settlement expansion is eroding the prospect of a two-state solution to the long-standing Middle East conflict.
At Security Council, UN Middle East peace envoy reports on Israel’s troubling settlement expansion
- 26 March 2018
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