Before his murder in 1948, Lord Folke Bernadotte, the first UN mediator to the Arab-Israeli conflict, stated:
"It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent [Palestinian] victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes, while J

Palestinians are well within their rights to bring the issue of Israeli settlements and their illegality before the United Nations Security Council.
Our decision to do so follows both Israel’s refusal to cease all settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory, and America’s fa