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UN chief Guterres: creeping annexation of West Bank, wholesale destruction of Gaza must stop

AL-Monitor
Jul 28, 2025
FILE PHOTO: U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres attends a United Nations high level conference hosted by France and Saudi Arabia to work towards a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., July 28, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres attends a United Nations high level conference hosted by France and Saudi Arabia to work towards a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., July 28, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo — Jeenah Moon

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said that 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 told a conference at the U.N. 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.

(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Ryan Patrick Jones)