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Trump Returns to UN as Gaza Crisis, Palestine Recognition Moves and Iran Deadline Dominate Agenda

Urgent talks will confront Gaza’s crisis alongside an Iran sanctions deadline, with US funding cuts testing the UN.

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Two years after the beginning of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, the humanitarian catastrophe ravaging the small Palestinian territory will dominate debate
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the General Assembly and has said firmly there will be no Palestinian state on his watch
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Overview

  • More than 140 leaders arrive in New York for the UN’s high-level week, with President Donald Trump set to address the General Assembly on Tuesday and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu scheduled to speak Friday.
  • Washington denied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a US visa, and the Assembly plans a Friday vote on allowing him to deliver a video address.
  • France and Saudi Arabia will co-chair meetings on a two-state pathway after the Assembly backed a text supporting a future Palestinian state, and several Western governments have signaled recognition plans.
  • Humanitarian warnings in Gaza are intensifying, including a global hunger monitor’s alert that famine has taken hold and could spread by month’s end, as Israel launched a ground assault on Gaza City this week.
  • Diplomacy is accelerating to head off a potential return of UN Security Council sanctions on Iran around September 28, with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi attending talks.