The Palestinian government on Tuesday urged the international community to take actions to stop Israel building settlements in the West Bank, as a means to save the wavering Middle East peace process.

Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Israel is steadily working to undermine the peace efforts and the two-state solution, citing latest reports from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics.

On Monday the bureau said that Israel started building 2,354 housing units in the settlements throughout 2013, a 123 percent rise from 2012.

About 131 Israeli settlements, along with extensive road networks and restrictions on access to neighboring Palestinian lands, have dominated nearly 40 percent of the West Bank.

That makes the Palestinians' dream to have an independent state on the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 unreachable.

The international community, including the United States, has viewed Israel's settlements on the Palestinian territories as a hurdle to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

The current US-mediated peace talks were resumed last July after a three-year halt over differences on Israeli settlement activities.