(VOVworld) - Outgoing United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged Israeli lawmakers to reconsider a bill to legalize Israeli settlement homes on private Palestinian land in the West bank. 

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (Source: Reuters)

He said the bill will have negative legal consequences for Israel and substantially diminish the chances for Arab-Israeli peace. Israeli legislators last week passed the bill to legalize some 4,000 settler units built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The bill must pass 2 more voting rounds in the Parliament before being finally approved.