UN's Guterres Says Israel Must Cease Settlement Construction

Visits Palestinians in West Bank after meeting with Netanyahu
Pledges commitment to two-state solution for Mideast conflict

Antonio Guterres and Rami Hamdallah in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Aug. 29, 2017.
Photographer: Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images

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By Fadwa Hodali and Jonathan Ferziger

August 29, 2017 at 2:47 PM UTC

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August 29, 2017 at 3:05 PM UTC

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Israel to stop settlement construction in the West Bank and pledged his commitment to a two-state solution.

Guterres spoke in Ramallah a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to a West Bank settlement 30 miles to the north and said he will never remove any of the more than 100 Jewish enclaves in the territory that Israel captured in 1967. U.S. President Donald Trump has declined to endorse establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel, saying the two sides must thrash out a solution themselves.