The UN chief warned on Tuesday that the two-State solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict is at risk of collapse amid illegal Israeli settlement expansion and annexation.
Key points:
Conditions for a viable Palestinian State are being “systematically erased” through Israeli settlement expansion, outposts and rising settler violence in the occupied West Bank; Israel’s illegal E1 settlement plan in the occupied West Bank would deal a “deathblow” to Palestinian statehood; UN chief reaffirmed goal of two sovereign States based on pre-1967 lines, with Jerusalem as the capital of both.
António Guterres was speaking at a high-level meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Even as support for the two-State solution has grown on paper, actions on the ground in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are threatening progress, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at the event hosted by Canada, France, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom.
“The conditions for an independent, democratic, contiguous, viable and sovereign Palestinian State are being systematically erased,” he said, pointing to Israeli actions, from war-ravaged Gaza to the Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank.
by UN News – ‘Time is running out’ for Israel-Palestine two-State solution
