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<\/p>\nIsraeli leader has said no to Palestinian stateNetanyahu under pressure from hostages’ families, Israeli publicTrump opposes Israeli annexation of West Bank\n<\/p>\n
Mr Martin was speaking after delegates from dozens of countries staged a mass walkout in protest as Benjamin Netanyahu took to the stage to deliver remarks. His speech was heard by a fraction of UN member states, but he told those who did stick around, that he had instructed the IDF to erect huge loudspeakers so it could be heard across Gaza.<\/p>\n
The Taoiseach told a more full gallery that it was incumbent on UN member states to take action and \u201cemploy all means reasonably available to them so as to prevent genocide as far as possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly. Photo by Michael M. Santiago\/Getty<\/p>\n
He also pointed to a UN Human Rights Commission\u2019s report last week that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll members of this United Nations must reflect on what they can do, and I especially call on those who have influence to use it urgently to maximum effect,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI call on those who have provided and who continue to provide Israel with the means necessary to prosecute this war to reflect carefully on the implications of their actions and the consequences for the Palestinian people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere cannot be business as usual in the face of genocide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are witnessing hunger being used as an instrument of war. Babies starving to death while aid rots at the border. People shot while desperately seeking food for their families. The deliberate targeting and destruction of schools, hospitals, mosques, cultural institutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Martin asked countries with influence over Israel to reconsider their role in the ongoing nearly two-year war.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll members of this United Nations must reflect on what more they can do. And I especially call on those who have influence to use it urgently to maximum effect,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere can be no impunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many of the delegates of the world\u2019s nations walked out in protest this afternoon as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the stage at the UN General Assembly on Friday.<\/p>\n
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Netanyahu sharply denounced Western countries for embracing Palestinian statehood and accused them of buckling under pressure from activists and others who have accused Israel of war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n
The Israeli leader pushed back in harsh terms against a flurry of diplomatic moves by leading US allies that deepened Israel\u2019s international isolation over its conduct of the nearly two-year-old war against Hamas militants in Gaza.<\/p>\n
“This week, the leaders of France, Britain, Australia, Canada and other countries unconditionally recognised a Palestinian state. They did so after the horrors committed by Hamas on October 7 — horrors praised on that day by nearly 90pc of the Palestinian population.”<\/p>\n
With more countries joining the list of those endorsing Palestinian independence, the most right-wing government in Israeli history has made its strongest declaration yet that there will be no Palestinian state as it pushes on with its fight against Hamas following the militants’ October 7, 2023, rampage in Israel. Hamas-led fighters killed some 1,200 people according to Israeli tallies.<\/p>\n
Israel’s military response has killed more than 65,000 people in Gaza, according to local health officials, and left much of the territory in ruins.<\/p>\n
“Over time, many world leaders buckled. They buckled under the pressure of a biased media, radical Islamist constituencies and antisemitic mobs. There’s a familiar saying, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Well, for many countries here, when the going got tough, you caved,” Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n
“Behind closed doors, many of the leaders who publicly condemn us privately thank us. They tell me how much they value Israel’s superb intelligence services that have prevented, time and again, terrorist attacks in their capitals.”<\/p>\n
Frustration over Israel\u2019s military siege and US President Donald Trump\u2019s unwillingness to rein Netanyahu in has spilled into the open at the annual New York gathering where, in a dramatic shift, Australia, Britain, Canada and France and several other nations embraced a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n
They said such action was needed to preserve the prospect for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and help bring the war to a close.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu followed to the rostrum Arab and Muslim leaders who this week accused Israel of genocide and war crimes in Gaza. The Israeli government has vehemently denied this.<\/p>\n
The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for Netanyahu for alleged war crimes in the Gaza war. Israel rejects the court’s jurisdiction and denies committing war crimes in Gaza. Netanyahu rebutted on Friday what he called “the false charge of genocide.”<\/p>\n
Hamas has offered to release all remaining hostages \u2013 only about 20 of whom are believed to be alive out of a total of 48 — in exchange for Israel agreeing to end the war and withdrawing from Gaza.<\/p>\n
“Much of the world no longer remembers October 7. But we remember,” Netanyahu said. Speaking in Hebrew, the Israeli leader directed his remarks to the hostages still held in Gaza: “We’ve not forgotten you — not even for a second.”<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank, rejecting calls from some far-right politicians in Israel who want to extend sovereignty over the area and snuff out hopes for a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has faced some pressure from allies to annex the West Bank, prompting alarm among Arab leaders, some of whom met on Tuesday with Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n
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Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin speaks during the United Nations General Assembly. Photo: Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n
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“I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. Nope, I will not allow it. It’s not going to happen,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
“There’s been enough. It’s time to stop now,” he said.<\/p>\n
France, Britain, Canada, Australia and Portugal are among the countries that have recognised a Palestinian state in the last few days, in part to help keep the possibility of a two-state solution alive. Israel has condemned the moves.<\/p>\n
Trump made the comments as Netanyahu was arriving in New York to deliver an address to the United Nations on Friday.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu’s office said the prime minister would wait until he returns to Israel to address Trump’s remark. Israeli settlements have grown in size and number since Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 war. They stretch deep into the territory with a system of roads and other infrastructure under Israeli control, further slicing up the land.<\/p>\n
A widely condemned Israeli settlement plan known as the E1 project, which would bisect the occupied West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem, received final approval in August. It will cut across land that the Palestinians seek for a state.<\/p>\n
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, an ultra-nationalist in the ruling right-wing coalition that keeps Netanyahu in power, said at the time that a Palestinian state is “being erased from the table.”<\/p>\n
Arab and Muslim countries warned Trump during a meeting earlier this week about the grave consequences of any annexation of the West Bank — a message the U.S. president “understands very well,” according to Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud.<\/p>\n
About 700,000 Israeli settlers live among 2.7 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed in a move not recognised by most countries.<\/p>\n
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Mourners carry the bodies of Palestinian children, who, according to medics, were killed in a deadly overnight Israeli strike on a building where displaced people were taking shelter, amid an Israeli military operation, at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, September 24, 2025. REUTERS\/Ebrahim Hajjaj <\/p>\n
Israel refuses to cede control of the West Bank, a position it says has been reinforced since Hamas stormed into Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. About 48 hostages, 20 of whom are believed to be alive, are still being held.<\/p>\n
Most of the international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law.<\/p>\n
Israel disputes this, citing historical and biblical ties to the area and saying the settlements provide strategic depth and security.<\/p>\n
Gaza deal <\/p>\n
While international leaders gather at the United Nations in New York, the U.S. presented a 21-point Middle East peace plan in a bid to end the nearly two-year-long war in Gaza between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas.<\/p>\n
It was shared with leaders and officials from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan on Tuesday, according to U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff.<\/p>\n
Trump, who remains Israel’s staunchest ally on the world stage, said that he spoke with representatives from Middle Eastern nations and Netanyahu on Thursday and that a deal on Gaza could happen soon.<\/p>\n
“We want the hostages back, we want the bodies back and we want to have peace in that region. So we had some very good talks,” he said.<\/p>\n
Israel has drawn global condemnation over its war in Gaza, which is nearing the two-year mark with no ceasefire in sight. The conflict has caused major destruction and killed more than 65,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities.<\/p>\n
A global hunger monitor says part of the territory is suffering from famine.<\/p>\n
On the ground, Israeli forces advanced deeper into Gaza City on Thursday and Israeli strikes killed at least 19 people across Gaza, local health authorities said.<\/p>\n
International efforts are also continuing to send assistance to help civilians as Israel appears increasingly isolated.<\/p>\n
Italy and Spain on Thursday deployed naval ships to assist an international aid flotilla that has come under drone attack while trying to deliver aid to Gaza. The Global Sumud Flotilla is using about 50 civilian boats to try to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli leader has said no to Palestinian stateNetanyahu under pressure from hostages’ families, Israeli publicTrump opposes Israeli annexation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-44966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}