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US says it won’t support Palestine resolution
View(s):WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States would not support a new Palestinian-proposed U.N. Security Council draft resolution, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Thursday.
“It is not something we would support,” Psaki told reporters.
Earlier, Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman described a draft resolution that calls for a peace deal within a year and ending the occupation of Palestinian territories by 2017 as a gimmick.
Palestinians seek a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, areas Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war. Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005 but continues to blockade the enclave, which is controlled by its Hamas Islamist enemy.
The draft resolution was formally submitted by Jordan to the 15-member Security Council on Wednesday.
A Palestinian man, wearing a Santa Claus costume and waving the national flag, is confronted by an Israeli soldier during a weekly demonstration on December 19, 2014 against Israel's controversial separation barrier, in the village of Maasarah, near the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem. AFP