The re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sharply criticized a decision by the UN General Assembly on the occupied Palestinian territories.
The United Nations body had earlier voted for the International Court of Justice in The Hague to review Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory, which has been in place since 1967.
Netanyahu said Saturday night: "Like hundreds of other perverse UN General Assembly resolutions against Israel, today's resolution will not bind the Israeli government.
The Jewish people do not occupy their land nor occupy their eternal capital, Jerusalem.”
The new Israeli foreign minister, Eli Cohen, also spoke of an "anti-Israeli decision that gives support to terrorist organizations and the anti-Semitic boycott movement BDS".
Call for settlement freeze as early as 2016
The Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtaje, on the other hand, spoke of a "new victory for the Palestinian people and their just cause on the way to freedom and national independence".
87 countries voted in favor and 26 against the decision on Friday, with more than 50 abstaining.
The UN General Assembly called on the court in The Hague to consider Israel's "continued occupation, settlement and annexation of Palestinian territories".
Israel's settlement policy is very controversial.
At the end of 2016, the UN Security Council called on Israel to completely stop settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the annexed East Jerusalem.
In 1967, Israel conquered the West Bank and East Jerusalem, among others.
More than 600,000 Israeli settlers live there today.
The Palestinians claim the territories for an independent state of Palestine with the Arab-influenced eastern part of Jerusalem as the capital.
Israel, on the other hand, sees no breach of the law in its settlement policy.