Al Qassam website - A visit to Zionist entity by U.S. special peace envoy George Mitchell is on hold pending a Zionist response to a series of American demands, Army radio reported on Tuesday.

Mitchell had been due to leave Washington for Zionist entity early on Monday but will delay his trip in a sign of the Obama administration's growing anger at Zionist entity's refusal to stop illegal building Jewish homes in East Jerusalem.

Netanyahu on has refused to draw a line under a crisis in Zionist-U.S. relations that erupted last week when Zionist entity announced plans for 1,600 new housing units in what so called Ramat Shlomo, an orthodox Jewish suburb beyond the "Green line" in the northeast of the city.

despite the American efforts, Netanyahu insists to continue building illegally in East of Jerusalem.

"For the past 40 years, no Israeli government ever limited construction in the neighborhoods of Jerusalem," he said.

Mitchell is thought to have delayed his travel plans until Tuesday? but may cancel his visit to Zionist entity altogether and instead fly straight to Moscow for talks with the 'Quartet' of Middle East peace mediators - the European Union, United Nations, the United States and Russia.

According to a report in The Washington Post on Tuesday, U.S. officials say that Mitchell's visit will remain on hold until the White House receives a Zionist response to key demands.

The three conditions, set by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a 43-minute telephone call to Netanyahu on Friday, have not been publicized by the U.S. - but Zionist entity is expected to provide a formal answer on Tuesday, the Post reported.

American officials see a resolution to the current crisis as a test of Netanyahu's commitment to ties with the U.S., the paper said.

"We have to have guarantees that these kinds of things will not happen again," a senior U.S. official was quoted as saying, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

"If he is unwilling to make that kind of commitment, it raises the questions of how committed he is to negotiations - and it raises the question of how committed he is to the relationship between Zionist entity and the United States."

"He has to take a firm stand to prevent similar kinds of announcements that will have a negative effect on negotiations," the official said.