EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has said Israel needs a political, not a military, solution to the conflict with Palestinians.

He said conversations about peace in West Asia have focused on Gaza, where Israel is conducting a military campaign that has killed tens of thousands and created over a million refugees in the wake of the October 7 attack by the Hamas resistance movement.

 But Borrell said that the situation in the West Bank, home to about 3 million Palestinians as well as hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers, is at least as important, Politico reported. 

“Yes, we have to end the war in Gaza, but the West Bank is the real obstacle for the two-state solution,” he said during a panel at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday. “The West Bank is boiling.”

He warned that if the UN is forced to stop supporting Palestinians in the West Bank, “we could be on the eve of a greater explosion.”