Israel rejects the term “settler violence”, calling it a provocation [SOUND]

# Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, has dismissed the idea that settlements were an obstacle to peace. The UN Security Council has sounded the alarm over rising settler violence, demolitions and displacement of Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank. All Israeli settlements there have no legal validity and constitute a violation of international law. Danon says his country has biblical, historic and legal rights to the land: