U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived Sunday evening in Tel Aviv for talks on way to revive the peace process, in his first visit since being elected to the U.N.'s top position last year.
He is scheduled to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday and his Palestinian counterpart Rami Hamdallah on Tuesday.

Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in an email that the visit will allow Guterres “to engage directly with Israeli and Palestinian people and their leaders” about “finding a long overdue peaceful resolution to the conflict,” Associate Press reported.

Guterres three-day visit is also expected to include a trip to the blockaded Gaza Strip, which is currently suffering from a severe electricity crisis caused by political tensions between the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and Gaza-based Hamas movement.

According to diplomatic officials, Guterres will not meet any political leaders in Gaza, but limit the visit to meeting with UNRWA officials and focusing on UN projects in the Strip.

Last week, the UN announced $2.5m would be provided to meet the electricity and medicine shortages in the strip, after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' decided to cut supplies.

Israel has a tenuous relationship with the U.N., accusing the Human Rights Committee and other bodies of unfairly singling it out for criticism. Israel was recently angered by a resolution adopted by the U.N.’s cultural agency, called on Israel as an'occupying power' to end projects aimed at altering 'character and status of the Holy City'.

Israel has also criticized the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon for their percieved soft stance on Iranian-backed Hezbollah forces on its border.