Obama worried about Israeli settlement

President Barack Obama says he's worried that the prospects for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are waning because of growing Israeli settlement of the West Bank.

Obama told his final news conference as president that his administration did not block a recent UN resolution on Israeli settlement activity because it felt a two-state solution was the only option for peace.

"The goal of the resolution was to simply say that the ... growth of the settlements are creating a reality on the ground that increasingly will make a two-state solution impossible," Obama told the news conference.

"It was important for us to send a signal, a wakeup call that this moment may be passing."