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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas told the UN on Thursday that Israeli policies no longer just jeopardized a two-state solution but were now threatening the "very life and existence" of his people. Abbas delivered prerecorded remarks to the UN’s General Assembly from his office in Ramallah after the United States denied him and other top Palestinian officials visas to attend the gathering for the second year in a row.
Israel hopes to redirect goods from illegal Israeli settlements towards markets in Asia and South America.
As criticism of Israel intensifies, Israeli PM Netanyahu heads to the UN with his own political future in focus.
Gaza’s $2.45bn recovery plan spans housing, health and 4G, but Israeli pullout and Hamas’s disarmament remain unclear.
Israeli bulldozers uprooted olive groves near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank weeks before the annual harvest.
Donald Trump's UN address was packed with claims that are misleading, false or exaggerated. He said the US has more munitions than it could ever use, despite reports of depleting stocks. He also claimed the US and Venezuela hold 60 percent of the world's oil, despite the numbers not adding up, and he said he had ended the war in Gaza despite ongoing Israeli strikes and deaths since last year's ceasefire. Vedika Bahl fact-checks the speech in Truth or Fake.
Israeli soldier Neria Leiter wounded in a suspected car-ramming attack near the illegal settlement of Beit Horon.
President Ahmed al-Sharaa calls for Israeli withdrawal, condemning its attacks as Syria emerges from civil war.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has hit back at US President Donald Trump’s speech in his address to the UN General Assembly. He opened by showing images of Iranian civilians killed in US strikes, saying they demonstrated the impact of US and Israeli military action against Iran. During his speech, the US delegation walked out of the General Assembly hall. France 24 International Affairs Editor Kethevane Gorjestani has more.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa demanded the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Syrian territory.
Pezeshkian began his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York City by holding up photos of children he said were killed by U.S. and Israeli bombs.
Israeli officials have hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron after he criticised Israel’s conduct in the occupied West Bank during his address to the UN General Assembly. But while Macron used strong words against Israel, France allowed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plane to fly through French airspace on its way to New York, despite an ICC arrest warrant against him. Delano D’Souza reports.
The company's cofounder is also an ex-Israeli soldier. Pakistan does not recognise Israel.
France's Macron says suffering in Gaza should 'shame all of us' as Canada's Carney pledges $71m for two-state efforts.
UK PM Burnham condemned Israel’s war on Gaza, and explains why the UK sanctioned illegal Israeli settlements.
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has denounced Israeli aggression in neighbouring countries.
Sheikh Tamim says years of delayed diplomacy led to the US-Israel war on Iran.
US President Donald Trump launched a full-throated defence of the deeply unpopular US-Israeli war against Iran before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, claiming that Washington would reach a deal with Tehran after the upcoming US midterm elections. Trump also rejected the idea of global regulation of artificial intelligence, said the government of Cuba would soon "fall", and urged member countries of the International Criminal Court to "resign".
Jordan's King Abdullah II decried Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as a strategy of ‘forced displacement.'
Israeli forces have effectively turned the Palestinian town of Biddu into military barracks.
