As progress is made toward peace, settlement activity in the occupied territories must end.

"We still see settlement activities go on, and that is, I think, the essential problem."

In practice, the two actions have had almost no impact yet on existing settlement activity.

It is possible that the church was the focus of settlement activity at this period extending into the later medieval.

The Minden area shows continuing settlement activity from the 1st to the 4th century.

Under that first phase, Israel is supposed to halt all settlement activity.

"We also have concerns about continuing settlement activity," he said.

American officials, however, have made clear in recent months that they consider any settlement activity an obstacle to the peace effort.

It also calls for Israel to freeze "all settlement activity."

Israel could impose a true freeze at last on all settlement activity.