Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summons Ambassador Shapiro to protest the US failure to veto a Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements.

The Obama administration says Netanyahu is responsible for the UN’s rebuke of Israel’s illegal settlements.

The Israeli parliament on Monday advanced a bill to legalize illegal settlement outposts on Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank.

Members of the European Parliament have condemned Israel’s illegal settlement activities in the West Bank.

The new settler units will be built on a 76-acre lot between Ramat Shlomo and the Palestinian neighborhood of Shuafat after expropriating private Palestinian land there.

Israeli media say Tel Aviv intends to build more than 30,000 settler units after US president-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office.

Local sources said the Israeli troops stormed the predominantly Palestinian neighborhoods of Silwan, al-Issawiya and Jabel Mukaber.

The US blasts Israel over its illegal settlement activity in the Palestinian occupied territories, calling it an obstacle to a two-state solution.

Palestinians have downplayed the statements made by the UN coordinator on Israeli settlement construction, saying that the UN and the Middle East Quartet have failed to make Israel stop its settlement expansion.

Israeli forces have razed to the ground nearly a dozen Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.