Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday slammed the new Israeli plan to build 2 610 construction units in an Israeli settlement in Jerusalem.

The Palestinian state-run Wafa news agency quoted Abbas as saying that more construction units in the settlement "show that Israel doesn't want to make peace."

"Israel doesn't respect the international legitimacy and flouts it, therefore it doesn't want peace," said Abbas in reaction to earlier reports saying that Israel has plans to build 2 610 more units in a settlement south of east Jerusalem.