`` Working relations , participating in debates and discussion and exchanging papers , sending information and requesting information , and organizing visits and so on and so on , this is all suspended , '' Yigal Palmor said about the decision by senior management of the Foreign Ministry . Israel says it will not cooperate with an investigation of Jewish settlements . The Israeli government has said that the settlement expansion is illegal and a major obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Senior Palestinian negotiator says the measures are intended to protect Palestinian land and people . Netanyahu says the council `` ought to be ashamed of itself ''
Israel says it will not cooperate with an investigation of Jewish settlements . The Israeli government has said that the settlement expansion is illegal and a major obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Senior Palestinian negotiator says the measures are intended to protect Palestinian land and people . Netanyahu says the council `` ought to be ashamed of itself ''