Unremitting conflict in Gaza has already sparked regional insecurity and is clear evidence that the international community needs to throw its weight behind a two-State solution in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to resolve the enduring crisis "once and for all", UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday.

Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the UN chief condemned the "barbaric" Hamas-led attacks on 7 October in which approximately 1,200 people were butchered in southern Israel and some 250 taken as hostages.

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