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UN Chief: Israeli Rejection of Two-State Solution Constitutes “Major Threat to Global Security”

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated during a high-level meeting of the UN Security Council Tuesday that Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians has become “a major threat to global peace and security” and that an Israeli rejection of a two-state solution is “unacceptable.”

Guterres gave his latest assessment to the UNSC after Israeli PM Netanyahu told US President Biden during a phone call on Friday that, in light of unrelenting terror attacks from Palestinian jihadists, Israel must retain security control over all land west of the Jordan River, including the Palestinian territories.

In a statement issued Saturday following the call with Biden, Netanyahu’s office said: “Prime Minister Netanyahu reiterated his policy that after Hamas is destroyed, Israel must retain security control over Gaza to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel, a requirement that contradicts the demand for Palestinian sovereignty.”

Having called for the immediate and unconditional release by Hamas of its Israeli hostages and asserting that he will continue to work toward their release, Guterres went on to tell the UNSC: “The entire population of Gaza is enduring destruction at a scale and speed without parallel in recent history. Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”

Israel’s “clear and repeated rejection” of the two-state solution “is unacceptable,” Guterres said, adding that “this refusal, and the denial of the right to statehood to the Palestinian people, would indefinitely prolong a conflict that has become a major threat to global peace and security.”