Preparing Netanyahu’s speech Kan’s UN correspondent

Sep 24

Kan’s UN correspondent reports preparations for Netanyahu’s address, possible walkouts and protests, and his meetings with Greek and Slovenian leaders. The report covers Abbas’s preceding remarks and a joint statement condemning Iran and the Houthis. It distinguishes anticipated demonstrations and diplomatic expectations from actions already reported.

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.