Civilian coordination with Palestinians also cut in retaliation to UN resolution, Defence Minister Lieberman announces.
Israel is calling on ambassadors of UN Security Council members to vote in favor of condemning settlements, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
Israeli Defense Minister Abdul Aziz al-Libguim announced Sunday that Israel was cutting civilian coordination with the Palestinians.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ehren Nahsen said the envoy of the 14 members of the UN Security Council will visit Jerusalem on a full-day mission. The United States envoy was not summoned.
The Palestinians responded to the United Nations settlement vote
The Security Council passed a resolution on Friday after the United States abstained and adopted the first resolution since 1979, condemning the Israeli settlement policy.
Which called for “the immediate and complete cessation of all Israeli settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem”.
It stated that the settlements had “no legal effect” and that “dangerously jeopardizes the viability of the two-State solution”.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the resolution as “a shameful blow to Israel,” Sunday repeating the Israeli claims that US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are behind the resolution.
“We have no doubt that the Obama administration launched it, standing behind, coordinating the draft and asking for adoption,” Netanyahu said at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting.
“This is, of course, totally contrary to traditional US policy, that is, without trying to impose conditions on the final resolution, of course, President Obama himself in 2011, a clear commitment to avoid taking such measures.
Although the resolution had no sanctions, Israeli officials feared that it might expand the possibility of prosecution before the International Criminal Court.
They also fear that it may encourage some States to impose sanctions on Israeli settlers and goods produced in the settlements.
Earlier Sunday, the Army Radio reported that Lieberman ordered the Israeli security services to cease all cooperation with the Palestinians in matters of civilians while maintaining security coordination.
Israeli officials declined to comment on the report.
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Sunday Measures taken to join Netanyahu’s mandate to review the work of the United Nations, including funding for United Nations agencies and the presence of their representatives in Israel.
Right-wing Minister of Public Security Erdan said Saturday night that Israel should “announce a full annexation of settlements” in response to the resolution.
Naftali Bennett, the education minister of the far right Jewish family, told the Army Radio that his party would “soon come up with an annex to the Maale Adumim bill,” a settlement city east of Jerusalem.
