ANTALYA, November 10, 2026 (WAFA) – United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres stated on Tuesday that Israel has obstructed the implementation of the UN Security Council-sponsored Gaza peace plan.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency on the sidelines of the 31st UN Climate Change Conference (COP31), hosted in Antalya, Guterres said: “Israel has created many obstacles for the implementation of the peace plan, as it has created obstacles for effective humanitarian aid in Gaza. And this situation must end.”
He added that the international community had failed in addressing the humanitarian crisis gripping the genocide-stricken Gaza strip, but stressed that responsibility for this failure lay with specific actors
“The international community has failed, but that failure has names,” he said.
On the Gaza ceasefire agreement, went into effect on October 11, 2025, Guterres noted that “the ceasefire is not being respected. Children go on dying, and that is something horrible.”
He called for full humanitarian access and the completion of both phases of the peace plan to give Gaza's population a chance for recovery.
Turning to the situation in the occupied West Bank, the UN chief said that it was also “absolutely unacceptable”, citing intensified Israeli colonial settlement construction, forced displacement of Palestinians, and violence by Israeli colonists not only against defenseless Palestinian civilians, but also against journalists and diplomats.
“There is a clear intention of progressively occupying more and more land, which gives the indication that in the end the objective is annexation,” he warned.
“That is absolutely unacceptable. We must guarantee that this is avoided at all costs,” he added.
Guterres stressed that the two-state solution must remain viable and be implemented as the only way to secure lasting peace in the Middle East.
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