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UN chief slams Israel for dooming prospects for two-state solution<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Antonio Guterres says recent developments in the occupied West Bank are \u2018driving a stake through the heart\u2019 of a two-state solution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Israel\u2019s policy toward the occupied West Bank<\/a> is dooming any prospect of a two-state solution with the Palestinians, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through administrative and legal steps, Israel is changing the geography of the West Bank, Guterres said in a statement read by his chief of staff, Courtenay Rattray, during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At least 23 killed in latest Israeli attack on Gaza school<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Settlement expansion is expected to speed up due to big land seizures in strategic areas and changes to planning, land management and governance, Guterres added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRecent developments are driving a stake through the heart of any prospect for a two-state solution,\u201d said the UN chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israeli military raids, arrests of Palestinians and settler violence have soared in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guterres noted that Israel has taken punitive steps against the Palestinian Authority and legalised<\/a> five Israeli outposts in the West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel has built such outposts as part of its occupation of the West Bank since 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe must change course. All settlement activity must cease immediately,\u201d Guterres said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN chief also repeated his call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza war and the release of all hostages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least 38,794 people have been killed and 89,364 wounded in Israel\u2019s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe humanitarian situation in Gaza is a moral stain on us all,\u201d Guterres said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meeting disrupted by protest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the UNSC quarterly session on the Middle East on Wednesday, Israel\u2019s war on Gaza and the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip dominated the agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat is happening in Gaza is going down as the most documented genocide in history,\u201d Riyad Mansour, Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, told the session. \u201cWhen will the world denounce the crimes and stop tolerating their reoccurrence?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan accused Hamas of crimes against humanity and said the Israeli captives were being held by \u201cIranian-supported and inspired terrorist organisations\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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