Overview

• Fourteen Security Council members backed a draft demanding an immediate, permanent cease-fire, unfettered aid access and the release of all hostages, but the United States cast the lone veto in its sixth such move of the war.
• Israel intensified operations in Gaza City after the vote, ordering further evacuations, closing the Salah al‑Din route south and warning of “unprecedented” force as phone and internet service were disrupted.
• The UN General Assembly voted 145–5 to let Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas address next week’s leaders’ meeting by video after the U.S. denied him a visa, with authorization extended for other UN sessions over the next year.
• Portugal announced it will formally recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday, joining a growing group of countries preparing recognition moves as high‑level UN meetings begin in New York.
• Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called Qatar’s emir to express solidarity after Israel’s Sept. 9 strike in Doha and voiced concern the action could jeopardize efforts to secure hostage releases.