Jordan has filed an emergency motion to convene the UN Security Council to discuss recently announced Israeli plans to construct additional Jewish homes over the Green Line.

In a statement, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said that the move to build was a breach of Israel’s previous commitments and would hold back the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

The plan to build signifies a “huge slap in the fact of efforts taken to restart Palestinian-Israeli negotiations aimed at the incarnation of a two-state solution based on well-known international references and the Arab Peace initiative,” the statement read, according to Kuwaiti news agency KUNA.

The request for an emergency meeting was submitted late Monday by the Jordanian UN delegation. Jordan is a Security Council member. The delegation is awaiting a date to convene the Security Council, which is currently chaired by Argentina.

A spokesman for Jordan’s mission to the UN said that his country is requesting a meeting on behalf of the Palestinians and will also discuss what the Palestinians refer to as the “dangerously escalating tensions” in East Jerusalem spurred on by Israel.

Judeh also met with his US, UN and European counterparts to exert pressure on Israel from “committing violations” on the Temple Mount.

Jordan’s request came hours after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas submitted a request to the Security Council president to call on the international community to demand that Israel “cease forthwith all of its illegal settlement activities.”

The Palestinian leader wrote that international intervention was the only way to stop “Israeli violations” and alleged “attacks” by “settler” at the Al Aqsa Mosque.

A spokesman for Abbas said that the PA would ask the UN to prevent Israel from building over the Green Line as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave approval for the construction of an additional 1,000 homes in East Jerusalem on Monday.

Abbas threatened that the planned construction would force the PA to seek statehood outside of peace negotiations. “These developments push us to decide and turn to international agencies and the Security Council as soon as possible,” Abbas said in a statement.

Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator and a top adviser to Abbas, said that Israel’s plans to build are a crime punishable under international law.

“This announcement amounts to evidence of an intent to further commit crimes defined by and punishable under international law,” Erekat said in a statement.