Ammon News - The UN Secretary-General António Guterres denounced on Friday escalating Israeli colonist violence against defenseless Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied West Bank.

Speaking at a press encounter in New York, the UN Secretary-General Guterres stressed that “International law – including international humanitarian law and international human rights law must be upheld across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.”

He also stressed that: “The International Court of Justice indicated provisional measures. These are binding and must be implemented.”

“The Court’s Advisory Opinion of 22 October 2025 was clear: Israel is under the obligation to allow and facilitate humanitarian aid, to cooperate with the United Nations in carrying out our mandates, and to respect the privileges and immunities of the United Nations and its personnel, including in times of armed conflict,” he added.

He reiterated his support to UNRWA, which “plays an indispensable role in serving the Palestinian people — in Gaza and elsewhere in the region.”

“This is a crisis born of human decisions. It can be resolved through human choices – if there is the political will to act,” he added.

He called for bringing “the perverse and prolonged suffering” inflicted on the Palestinian people to an end, while emphasizing that “Palestinians need a horizon of hope. The ceasefire must be implemented in full. The endless cycle of violence must be broken. And the way must be cleared to an irreversible path to a two-state solution.”

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