UN Chief: Israel’s war on Gaza has crossed all moral red lines
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the Israeli occupation’s ongoing war crimes in Gaza and illegal actions in the West Bank have brought the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a breaking point.
Speaking Monday at the high-level international conference on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine, Guterres painted a grim picture of the reality on the ground: tens of thousands of Palestinians killed, millions displaced, and the land of Palestine carved apart by settlements, annexation, and military aggression.
“This conflict has endured for generations – defying hopes, diplomacy, countless UN resolutions, and international law,” Guterres said. “But it is not inevitable. It can be resolved. That demands political will and courageous leadership. The truth is: we are at a breaking point. The two-State solution is farther than ever before.”
Condemning Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the Secretary-General declared: “Nothing can justify the obliteration of Gaza that has unfolded before the eyes of the world.” He denounced the starvation of civilians, the killing of tens of thousands of innocents, mass forced displacement, escalating settler terrorism, and the creeping annexation of the occupied West Bank—actions he branded “illegal” and intolerable.
Calling on the international community to act, Guterres stressed that unilateral measures eroding the two-State solution are part of “a systemic reality dismantling the building blocks of peace in the Middle East.”
The three-day conference, mandated by the UN General Assembly through resolutions ES-10/24 and 79/81 and co-organized by France and Saudi Arabia, gathers senior officials and ministers for sessions on security, humanitarian relief, reconstruction, and the economic viability of an independent Palestinian state.
Guterres urged the participating states to ensure this gathering is not “another exercise in well-meaning rhetoric,” but a genuine turning point towards ending the occupation and realizing the rights of the Palestinian people.
Reaffirming the UN’s position, he emphasized that the two-State solution—based on pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine—is the only viable path to justice and lasting peace.
“It is the sine qua non for peace across the wider Middle East,” he concluded. (ILKHA)
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