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UN official says West Bank "on a dangerous trajectory"; warns settlement expansion risks two-state outcome
Summary
Sigrid Kog, the acting UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, told the Security Council the two-state solution is "on life support," citing settlement expansion, land seizures and settler violence in the West Bank.
Sigrid Kog, the acting UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, told the Security Council that the two-state solution is "on life support" and that reviving it requires decisive action. She said settlement expansion, land seizures and settler violence in the West Bank were accelerating a de facto annexation that, if not reversed, "will make the two-state solution physically impossible."
The UN spokesperson repeated Kog's warning at the briefing and said that a high-level international conference co-chaired by France and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in June must do more than rhetoric and instead "launch a concrete path" to end the humanitarian risks facing Gaza and reverse damaging trends in the West Bank.
The briefing also reported that OCHA-led diplomatic visits to southern Hebron and other areas had documented repeated settler attacks, demolitions and property damage, including to homes and schools, and said such violence was leading to "imminent forced displacement."
