Overview

• Dozens of delegations left the General Assembly hall as Netanyahu began, while the U.S. delegation remained seated with junior representation.
• The prime minister declared Israel must “finish the job” against Hamas and castigated countries that recognized Palestinian statehood.
• His office said the speech would be blasted into Gaza by loudspeakers and pushed to mobile phones, though reporters in the enclave saw no evidence of phone takeovers.
• Flight tracking showed his aircraft avoided Spanish and French airspace en route to New York, a route widely linked to the ICC arrest warrant now in force.
• Western pressure escalated with new recognitions of a Palestinian state and EU tariff discussions, as Trump scheduled a Washington meeting and ruled out West Bank annexation.