Former German Foreign Minister and President of the 80th league of the United Nations General Assembly Annalena Baerbock speaks during a General Assembly gathering to ballot connected 2 states solution to the Palestinian question astatine United Nations office (UN) connected September 12, 2025 successful New York City. The UN General Assembly connected Friday adopted the "New York Declaration" which aims to respire caller beingness into the two-state solution betwixt Israel and Palestine, without the engagement of Hamas.
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The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Friday to enactment a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian struggle and impulse Israel to perpetrate to a Palestinian state, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vehemently opposes.
The 193-member satellite assemblage approved a nonbinding solution endorsing the "New York Declaration," which sets retired a phased program to extremity the astir 80-year conflict. The ballot was 142-10 with 12 abstentions.
Hours earlier the vote, Netanyahu said "there volition beryllium nary Palestinian state." He spoke astatine the signing of an agreement to grow settlements that volition disagreement the West Bank, which the Palestinians importune indispensable beryllium portion of their state, saying, "This spot belongs to us."
The solution was sponsored by France and Saudi Arabia, who co-chaired a high-level league connected implementing a two-state solution successful precocious July, wherever the declaration was approved.
The astir two-year warfare successful Gaza and the broader Israeli-Palestinian struggle are expected to beryllium astatine the apical of the docket of satellite leaders astatine their yearly gathering astatine the General Assembly starting connected Sept. 22. The Palestinians accidental they anticipation astatine slightest 10 much countries volition admit the authorities of Palestine, adding to the much than 145 countries that already do.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. ambassador, said the enactment for the solution reflects "the yearning of astir everyone, the planetary community, to unfastened the doorway for the enactment of peace."
Without naming Israel, helium said, "We invitation a enactment that is inactive pushing the enactment of warfare and destruction, and attempts to destruct the Palestinian radical and bargain their land, to perceive to the dependable of crushed — to the dependable of the logic of dealing with this contented peacefully, and for the overwhelming connection that has resonated successful this General Assembly today."
But Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon dismissed the solution arsenic "theater," saying the lone beneficiary is Hamas.
"This one-sided declaration volition not beryllium remembered arsenic a measurement toward peace, lone arsenic different hollow motion that weakens this assembly's credibility," helium said.
The United States, Israel's closest ally, reiterated its absorption to the New York Declaration and the General Assembly solution endorsing implementation of the two-state solution.
The solution "is yet different misguided and ill-timed publicity stunt that undermines superior diplomatic efforts to extremity the conflict," U.S. Mission counsellor Morgan Ortagus said. "Make nary mistake, this solution is simply a acquisition to Hamas."
The declaration condemns "the attacks committed by Hamas against civilians" successful confederate Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, a uncommon condemnation by Arab nations of Hamas. The Hamas-led militants killed astir 1,200 people, chiefly Israeli civilians, and took astir 250 hostage. Of those, 48 are inactive being held, including astir 20 who are believed to beryllium alive.
It besides condemns Israel's attacks connected civilians and civilian infrastructure successful Gaza and its "siege and starvation, which person produced a devastating humanitarian catastrophe and extortion crisis." Israel's violative against Hamas has killed implicit 64,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which doesn't separate betwixt civilians and combatants.
The declaration envisions the Palestinian Authority governing and controlling each Palestinian territory, with a transitional administrative committee instantly established nether its umbrella aft a ceasefire successful Gaza.
"In the discourse of ending the warfare successful Gaza, Hamas indispensable extremity its regularisation successful Gaza and manus implicit its weapons to the Palestinian Authority," the declaration says.
It besides supports deployment of "a impermanent planetary stabilization mission" operating nether U.N. auspices to support Palestinian civilians, enactment the transportation of information to the Palestinian Authority and supply information guarantees for Palestine and Israel — "including monitoring of the ceasefire and of a aboriginal bid agreement."
The declaration urges countries to recognize the authorities of Palestine, calling this "an indispensable and indispensable constituent of the accomplishment of the two-state solution." Without naming Israel but intelligibly referring to it, the papers says "illegal unilateral actions are posing an existential menace to the realization of the autarkic authorities of Palestine."
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