Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas seeks urgent UNSC meeting to discuss Israel’s settlement activity.

Press reports said on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wants the United Nations Security Council to meet to discuss Israel's construction in occupied Jerusalem and beyond the Green Line.
 
The Israeli enemy announced earlier this week it plans for 1,300 new apartments on land in and around Jerusalem which was occupied by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. A further 800 housing units were planned for the settlement of Ariel in the northern West Bank.

"Something must be done on the international level to halt the settlement expansion which the Israeli government is undertaking in the West Bank, including Jerusalem," Nabil Abu Rdainah, the spokesman for Abbas, said on Wednesday.

Abbas had instructed his delegate to the United Nations, where the Palestinians have observer status, to request the meeting, he told Reuters. The delegate, Riyad Mansour, said by telephone from New York he would make the request via Arab states that have full member status.