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Monday, April 1, 2024
Israel says supporting Palestinian bid for UN membership is ‘prize to terror’

Israel's Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York on March 25, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan says the Palestinian Authority has not met the required criteria for statehood in its bid for full UN membership, first put forward in 2011, and “has only moved further from the goals it should achieve since.”
“In addition, whoever supports recognizing a Palestinian state at such a time not only gives a prize to terror, but also backs unilateral steps which are contradictory to the agreed upon principle of direct negotiations,” Erdan says.