Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called on the new US administration to take serious and effective measures to stop settlement expansion plans, which include plans to establish more than 12,000 settlement units in the West Bank, including 540 settlement units in Jabal Abu Ghneim, south of Jerusalem. The Prime Minister added that settlement colonial expansion in the occupied territories would undermine international efforts to establish a Palestinian state on the lines of June 4, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Meanwhile, the Israeli Knesset is discussing a bill to legalize settlement outposts in violation of Security Council resolutions related to settlement, the most important of which is Resolution 2334. For further details, click here