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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

UN General Assembly

Mexico's Foreign Secretary Alicia Bárcena speaks to the United Nations General Assembly during Summit of the Future, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 at UN headquarters. (AP/Frank Franklin II)
October 1, 2024, 12:32 pm
As UN parley ends, a pact for the future gives multilateralism a fighting chance
With wars casting a shadow over annual summit, a blueprint to foster cooperation on AI, climate change and more buoys hopes that countries can still work together
By Edith M. Lederer and Jennifer Peltz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd right) attends a dinner at a New York City Hotel with billionaire benefactor Simon Falic, September 27, 2024. (YouTube video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 29, 2024, 6:39 pm
PM attended event with billionaire friend in NYC hours after Nasrallah killing
Netanyahu moved forward his return flight after strike in Beirut, but first went to dinner with Falic family, where celebrity rabbi called him Israel’s ‘greatest leader’
By Michael Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures after speaking during the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 27, 2024 (Charly Triballeau/AFP)
September 27, 2024, 7:26 pm
Full text of Netanyahu’s UN speech: ‘Enough is enough,’ he says of Hezbollah, also warns Iran
PM tells world to choose peace and battle ’Iranian curse’; vows to keep hitting Hezbollah; says Hamas must go; denounces UN; promises Israel ’won’t go gently into that good night’
By ToI Staff
Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian demonstrators march with a cutout depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near the United Nations headquarters, September 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
September 27, 2024, 1:45 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 27: Day 357 – PM flipflops on Hezbollah ceasefire, upsets US
US bureau chief Jacob Magid reviews what happened to the proposed 21-day truce initiative, discusses comments about Middle East made by Biden in UN speech
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a video statement on September 22, 2024 (Screen grab/GPO)
September 27, 2024, 11:42 am
Netanyahu says Israel ‘shares the aims’ of US truce proposal, after rejecting it
Western diplomats say PM and aides helped craft US-French ceasefire initiative, before doing a U-turn amid domestic backlash; Lebanese FM calls for truce during speech at UN
By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
September 26, 2024, 10:04 pm
Abbas, in UN speech, blasts Israeli ‘genocide’ in Gaza, sets out 12-point ‘day after’ plan
PA leader urges international protection for Palestinians, strong UNRWA, single government in West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, while never mentioning Hamas; wants Israel out of UN
By Jacob Magid
A cloud of smoke erupts during an Israeli airstrike on a village outside Tyre in southern Lebanon as the IDF pounded Hezbollah targets on September 26, 2024. (Photo by Kawnat HAJU / AFP)
September 26, 2024, 12:37 pm
Lebanon ceasefire talk whips up widespread opposition from Netanyahu allies, critics
Lapid among few to offer even lukewarm backing for US-French proposal for 21-day pause in fight against Hezbollah, but urges it be shortened; northern leader calls idea ‘fatal mistake’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 22, 2023 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
September 25, 2024, 2:27 pm
Netanyahu set to address the UN amid global criticism of war in Gaza, Lebanon
PM, known for his showmanship, will deliver speech under shadow of possible arrest warrant from ICC, one year after UN speech presenting vision of regional peace
By AP and ToI Staff
Smoke rises behind a destroyed house following an Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah targets in Khiam village, as seen from Marjayoun town, south Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
September 25, 2024, 4:18 am
At UN, world leaders warn against ‘full-scale war’ between Israel and Hezbollah
Biden says ‘diplomatic solution still possible,’ ahead of Security Council session on Lebanon set for Wednesday; Macron urges Iran’s president to use his influence on Hezbollah
By AFP and ToI Staff
Lior Sternfeld (Via X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
September 25, 2024, 1:14 am
US-based Israeli professor says he spoke with Iran’s president at interfaith meeting
Lior Sternfeld says he gave a copy of his book to Pezeshkian, who knew he was Israeli; transgender rabbi, fringe anti-Zionist Haredi group also participated in event
By ToI Staff
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 24, 2024, at the UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson).
September 24, 2024, 11:59 pm
Israeli officials pan UN chief’s remarks on Gaza, Lebanon at General Assembly
Guterres accuses Israel of ‘collective punishment’ in Gaza, warns Lebanon on ‘brink’; Israel’s UN envoy blasts UNGA ‘hypocrisy’ for only responding when Gaza mentioned
By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)
September 24, 2024, 10:06 pm
Iran’s president tells UN Israel’s ‘terrorism in Lebanon cannot go unanswered’
Hezbollah has reportedly asked Tehran to attack Israel as fighting intensifies, but regime unwilling to do so while Pezeshkian is in New York for General Assembly
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the the Summit of the Future at United Nations headquarters, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
September 24, 2024, 6:37 pm
Iranian president says Hezbollah ‘cannot stand alone’ against Israel
In interview ahead of his UN General Assembly speech, Masoud Pezeshkian calls on international community not to allow Lebanon to ‘become another Gaza’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) meeting with the International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, Sept. 23, 2024 (the Turkish presidency)
September 24, 2024, 12:28 pm
Erdogan tells ICC prosecutor Israel planning ‘new massacres’ in Gaza
Turkish president, PA’s Abbas press Karim Khan on expediting war crimes charge against Netanyahu in meeting on sidelines of UN General Assembly, saying Israel acting with impunity
By ToI Staff
Families of hostages and released hostages attend a rally outside the United Nations headquarters in New York calling for a hostage release-ceasefire deal, September 20, 2024. (Daniel Tenenbaum, Benjamin Azoulay, Britt Shacham, Tamar Shemesh/Hostages Families Forum)
September 21, 2024, 6:42 am
Thousands attend hostage deal rally outside UN headquarters in New York
Demonstrators urge world leaders gathering for General Assembly to pay attention to plight of the captives in Gaza, note issue ‘remains conspicuously absent from the agenda’
By ToI Staff
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