The Palestinians have finalized a draft resolution asking the United Nations Security Council to condemn Jewish settlement activities in occupied territories, a senior Palestinian official said Saturday, Xinhua reported.
"The drafting is ready and would be submit to the Security Council within a few days," said Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator.
The draft resolution stresses that all Israeli settlements in the lands that Israel has occupied in 1967 war, including East Jerusalem, are "illegal and make a big obstacle on the way of just, comprehensive and lasting peace," Erekat told Xinhua.
The articles of the draft resolution also demand Israel to cease all settlement activities, including the so-called natural growth of existed settlements and removing all structures built over the past decade.
Erekat said all members of the UN Security Council support the draft resolution except the United States. "We will not understand a veto from Washington on the draft resolution since the United States had tried to stop the settlement construction," Erekat added.
Israel resumed building settlements in the West Bank in September, causing U.S.-brokered peace talks between Palestinians and Israel to break down a few weeks after they started.
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