{"id":121814,"date":"2025-09-22T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/allies-recognition-of-palestine-sets-stage-for-high-stakes-unga-session\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:04:00","slug":"allies-recognition-of-palestine-sets-stage-for-high-stakes-unga-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/allies-recognition-of-palestine-sets-stage-for-high-stakes-unga-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Allies\u2019 Recognition of Palestine Sets Stage for High-Stakes UNGA Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK, Sep 22\u2014<\/strong> The opening of this year\u2019s United Nations General Assembly is coinciding with a series of moves by key U.S. allies recognising the State of Palestine and a renewed focus on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia formally announced they were recognising the State of Palestine. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the recognition was intended \u201cto revive the hope of peace and a two-state solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, denied a U.S. visa, will address the Assembly by prerecorded video after a resolution allowing him to do so passed overwhelmingly \u2014 145 in favour, 5 against. <\/p>\n<p>Israel has opposed the recognitions. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week: \u201cRecognition of a Palestinian state now is a prize for terrorism \u2026 there will be no Palestinian state west of the Jordan.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>These developments come as the death toll in Gaza continues to climb. According to Gaza health authorities, more than 65,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel\u2019s military campaign began in response to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, which killed about 1,200 people in Israel and resulted in 251 hostages taken. <\/p>\n<p>The UN Commission of Inquiry has concluded that Israel\u2019s conduct in Gaza meets the legal threshold for genocide, a finding Israel rejects as biased and false.<\/p>\n<p>At the UN Security Council, the United States vetoed a draft resolution demanding a permanent Gaza ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian access, although the other 14 members supported it. Washington said the text did not condemn Hamas or guarantee Israel\u2019s security. <\/p>\n<p>With recognitions by close U.S. allies, an unprecedented death toll in Gaza and a genocide finding from a UN body, this year\u2019s UNGA session has become a focal point for the shifting diplomatic landscape around the Israel\u2013Palestine conflict.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Sep 22\u2014 The opening of this year\u2019s United Nations General Assembly is coinciding with a series of moves by key U.S. allies recognising the State of Palestine and a renewed focus on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia formally announced they were recognising the State of Palestine. British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}