Israel-Gaza war: ceasefire ‘close to the goalline’, says US – as it happened

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Sven Koopmans, the EU's special representative for the Middle East peace process, has said he still believes a two-state solution - a Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and in Gaza alongside Israel - is achievable despite opposition to it from Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister.

In an interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP), he said Netanyahu's government cannot indefinitely disregard European views on resolving the conflict, with Israel needing international support amid its war in Gaza.

I think that recently he was very explicit about rejecting the two-state solution.

Now, that means that he has a different point of view from much of the rest of the world.

It is important that we have that discussion. I am sure that in such a meeting, there will be very substantive discussions about what we expect from our partner Israel. And that relates to things that we do not see at present.