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Settlement councils. israeli farms flourish in the jordan river valley and israeli resorts line the shores of the dead sea. a lot of people don't realize this. they line the shore of the dead sea where palestinian development is not allowed. in fact, almost no private palestinian building is approved in area c at all, only one permit was issued by israel in all of 2014 and 2015 while approvals for hundreds of settlement units were advanced during that same period. moreover, palestinian structures in area c that do not have a permit from the israeli military are potentially subject to demolitio...

President, braarack obama. and the president is facing international challenges including the latest u.n. security council vote that has israeli leaders fuming. our global correspondent has more. >> reporter: tonight israel announced plans to build hundreds of new settlement units in east jerusalem in defiance of a u.n. vote calling them illegal and sharpened attacks on the u.s. accusing the white house of orchestrating the votes. as president obama deals with the fallout, new questions about the world he's leaving. >> there are places around the world where horrible things are happening and b...

Yet despite growing pressure the obama administration held a strong line against u.n. action -- any u.n. action. we were the only administration since 1967 that had not allowed any resolution to pass that israel opposed. in fact, the only time in eight years the obama administration exercised its veto at the united nations was against a one-sided settlement resolution in 2011. and that resolution didn't mention incitement or violence. let's look at what happened since then. since then there have been over 30,000 settlement units advanced through some stage of the planning process. that's right...

Israeli farms flourish in the jordan river valley. israeli resorts line the shores of the dead sea. where palestinian development is not allowed. in fact, almost no private palestinian building is approved in area c at all. only one permit was issued by israel in all of 2014 and 2015. while approvals for hundreds of settlement units were advanced during that same period. moreover, palestinian structures in area c that do not have a permit from the israeli military are potentially subject to demolition. they're currently being demolished at an historically high rate. over 1,300 palestinians, in...

River valley and israeli resorts line the shores of the dead sea, a lot of people don't realize this. they line the shore of the dead sea where palestinian development is not allowed. in fact, almost no private palestinian building is approved in area c at all. only one permit was issued by israel in all of 2014 and 2015 while approvals for hundreds of settlement units were advanced during that same period. moreover palestinian structures in area c do not have a permit from the israeli military are potentially subject to demolition and currently being demolished in a historically high rate ove...