In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, UN chief Antonio Guterres said the US must put more pressure on Israel to end its war in Gaza.
“I have no power to stop the war. We have a voice, and that voice has been loud and clear to say from the beginning this war must stop. The suffering of the Palestinian people must stop and the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people must be recognized,” he said speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic in an exclusive interview,.
“The Security Council has systematically failed in relation to the capacity to put an end to the most dramatic conflicts that we face today: Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine.”
In the interview, Guterres also blamed the world’s “major powers” for fostering the culture of impunity on display in Gaza.
“The geopolitical divide that exists among the major powers has created a situation in which any country or any movement anywhere in the world feels that they can do whatever they want because there will be no punishment.”
“The International Court of Justice has said clearly and has issued an opinion saying that there is an [Israeli] occupation [in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem], that the occupation is illegal … that the occupation must stop.”
“We must absolutely reject any prospective annexation of West Bank or the land grabbing or the illegal settlements that move on. The West Bank together with Gaza and East Jerusalem, which is part of the West Bank, must be the state of Palestine in the future.”
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