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‘Israel has reacted angrily to recent UN criticism about illegal settlement activities by the Tel Aviv regime in the occupied Palestinians territories, describing the brickbats as ridiculous.
In a statement released on Tuesday, David Keyes, the spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, branded the comments by UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov as “absurd,” claiming that they “made peace harder to achieve by distorting history and international law.”
On Monday, Mladenov told the UN Security Council that the expansion of Israeli settlements has surged in the two months since a key report called for a halt to such unauthorized construction activities in the Palestinian lands.’
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