Alwaght- Israeli regime has canceled a vote on requests to build 492 homes in occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Al-Quds's city hall came after UN Security Council's Friday resolution that urged an end to regime's illegal construction of settlement on occupied lands.
Reuters cited al-Quds Planning and Housing Committee member Hanan Rubin as saying that regime's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested the decision be put off.
On Friday, the UNSC Resolution 2334 was passed with 14 votes in favor and one abstention -- by the US. It condemned the establishment of settlements by Tel Aviv regime in the occupied Palestinian territories as a "flagrant violation under international law," which it said was “dangerously imperiling the viability” of peace and the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Outraged by the move, Netanyahu summoned the representatives of most of the countries backing the measure and reduced diplomatic ties with 12 of them on Monday.
According to CNN, Israel has suspended working ties with Britain, France, Russia, China, Japan, Ukraine, Angola, Egypt, Uruguay, Spain, Senegal and New Zealand.
Before turning to the UK, Israel took issue with the US for not blocking the act. When the resolution came up to vote on Friday, Washington decided to abstain and let it pass in a 14-0 decision.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and al-Quds .
