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Israel’s policy toward the West Bank is dooming any prospect of a two-state solution with the Palestinians, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday. Violence and arrests have soared in the Israeli-occupied territory since the Gaza war erupted over Hamas’s 7 October attacks. Through administrative and legal steps, Israel is changing the geography of the West Bank, Guterres said in a statement read by his chief of staff, Courtenay Rattray, during a meeting of the Security Council. Settlement expansion is expected to speed up due to big land seizures in strategic areas and changes…

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