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Gaza, September 22–24: war ended, or suffering continuing?

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Abbas’s UN video address on Gaza

Trump says he ended the Gaza war and returned the remaining hostages. Abbas says the withdrawal and reconstruction promised in the plan have not been implemented. Kan 11 (September 22), then Vremya (September 24). These accounts contrast the declared achievement with implementation; they are not a chronological exchange.

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Mahmoud Abbas addresses the UN General Assembly by video on September 24. In the excerpt he says the Palestinians backed Trump's twenty-point plan to stop the fighting, secure Israeli withdrawal and reconstruct Gaza, but that these objectives have not been implemented. He accuses Israel of continuing to kill civilians and of seeking to displace Palestinians from Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Vremya says he could not attend because the United States refused him a visa. These are Abbas's claims; the item gives no Israeli response to his specific assertions. Kan airs another excerpt in which Abbas calls events in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem a coordinated colonial plan to make life harder and force Palestinians to leave. The on-screen identification confirms the speaker. This adds his own words to the existing video-address event; Kan's surrounding preview says Netanyahu will rebut criticism but does not answer these specific allegations in this excerpt.

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