Opening confab, UN chief demands end to Israeli ‘unilateral actions’ that undermine 2-state solution

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the Israel-Iran conflict at the UN headquarters in New York on June 20, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the Israel-Iran conflict at the UN headquarters in New York on June 20, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Israel’s creeping annexation of the West Bank is illegal and the wholesale destruction of the Gaza Strip is intolerable and both must stop.

“Let’s be clear: The creeping annexation of the occupied West Bank is illegal. It must stop. The wholesale destruction of Gaza is intolerable. It must stop,” he tells a conference at the UN on a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians.

“Unilateral actions that would forever undermine the two-state solution are unacceptable. They must stop,” Guterres said.

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