![The UN Security Council vote to pass a resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction as Samantha Power, centre, the US' permanent representative, abstains on December 23 [EPA]](https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/unsc-dec-2016-vote.jpg)
Originally published by B’Tselem.
Today’s United Nations Security Council resolution reaffirms international consensus that Israel’s settlements are illegal and harm Palestinian human rights. The resolution seeks the wellbeing of all people in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. It is not an “anti-Israeli” resolution, but a balanced one, which rejects the occupation – not Israel. Hopefully, further international measures will follow – for a better future for Israelis and Palestinians, and against the occupation.