Israel has retaliated against the United Nations’ Palestinian statehood vote by seizing additional Palestinian funds and announcing a new round of settlement construction in the occupied West Bank. One day after the U.N. General Assembly’s historic decision to grant Palestine the status of a “non-member observer state,” Israel responded by authorizing 3,000 new homes in Jewish-only settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. At a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will continue to build on Palestinian land wherever it wants.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Today we are building, and we will continue to build in Jerusalem and in all areas that are on the state of Israel’s map of strategic interests.”