United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has hailed Donald Trump’s diplomatic efforts to help secure a truce in the Gaza Strip following 15 months of war.
“I will praise the United States, Qatar and Turkey for their efforts for months and months and months to obtain the release of hostages, also to obtain the ceasefire,” Guterres said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“There was a large contribution of the robust diplomacy of the at-the-time president-elect of the United States,” he added.
“I feel that when we had the position of Israel still reluctant to the ceasefire just two days before it happened, and then all of a sudden there was an acceptance,” he added.
But Guterres said it was not clear yet what the future relationship would look like between Israelis and Palestinians.
“One possibility is to move into annexation of the West Bank, probably a kind of a limbo situation in Gaza, which of course is against its national law and would mean there will never be peace in the Middle East,” he warned.
