On Wednesday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started from Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he said that he would “condemn” the leaders of the nations that recently recognized the condition of Palestinian state.
Netanyahu will speak on the Unga on Friday. Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian authority, the government that exercises limited control over parts of occupied West Bank, in cooperation with the Israeli authorities, will speak on Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in an event in Jerusalem on September 15, 2025.
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Hundreds of protesters gathered at the airport, stirring Israeli flags and yellow banners, the latter representing the symbol adopted by the hostages and the forum of missing families to demand the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
“I will condemn those leaders who, instead of condemning the murderers, the rapists, the burners of the children, want to give them a state in the heart of the land of Israel,” said Netanyahu. “This will not happen.”
This week, several nations, including Canada, France, and the United Kingdom officially recognized the status of Palestinian status, with leaders framing the measure as an answer to the Israel War in Gaza and Netanyahu’s self -proclaimed efforts to block any solution of two states to the conflict of decades.
The Palestinian authority provides for a future Palestinian state that includes the Gaza Strip, Bank and East Jerusalem, its borders aligned with the so -called “green line” recognized by the UN before the War of the six days of 1967.
A Palestinian State is now recognized by 157 of the 193 UN Member States, including 18 of 32 NATO allies.
-ABC News’ Joe Simonetti
