United Nations, Sep 24, 2025

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the viability of a two-state solution is steadily eroding, now reaching its most critical level in more than a generation.

In his statement at a UN Security Council high-level meeting on the Palestinian question, Guterres, on Tuesday, highlighted relentless settlement expansion, de facto annexation, and forced displacement as evidence of the erosion, Xinhua news agency reported.

“Cycles of deadly violence, including by extremist settlers, have entrenched an unlawful Israeli occupation and pushed us perilously close to a point of no return,” he added.

Israel’s recent approval of settlement construction in the E1 area is especially alarming. If implemented, it would sever the occupied West Bank, destroying the

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