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Israel summons 14 ambassadors after UN settlement vote

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Israel has summoned the ambassadors of United Nations Security Council member states that voted in favour of a resolution condemning settlement activity, a foreign ministry spokesman said.

By way of rebuke of the vote, Israel's defence minister Avigdor Lieberman also announced on Sunday that Israel was cutting civilian coordination with Palestinians. 

Foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said that the 14 envoys of UN Security Council members will visit the ministry in Jerusalem throughout the day.  The United States' envoy was not summoned.

The council passed the measure on Friday after the US abstained, enabling the adoption of the first resolution since 1979 to condemn Israel over its settlement policy.

The resolution demands "Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem".

It says settlements have "no legal validity" and are "dangerously imperilling the viability of the two-state solution."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had rejected the resolution as a " shameful blow against Israel ", repeated on Sunday the Israeli claim that US president Barack Obama and secretary of state John Kerry were behind the resolution.


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