Overview

• Dozens of delegations left the General Assembly hall as Netanyahu began, while the U.S. delegation remained with junior-level representatives present.
• Netanyahu rejected a Palestinian state and castigated recent recognitions by Western governments, saying such moves would encourage terrorism.
• Israel said it broadcast his address into Gaza via border loudspeakers and claimed an unprecedented phone takeover to stream the speech, which reporters in Gaza could not verify.
• The prime minister traveled to New York on a circuitous route reportedly to avoid airspace of countries that might enforce an ICC arrest warrant, as ICC and ICJ proceedings continue.
• Protesters in New York called for Netanyahu’s arrest, and he is scheduled to meet Trump in Washington after the president warned against annexing the West Bank.