Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN on Friday (September 26, 2025) denied accusations of "genocide" in Gaza and using "starvation" as a tactic, insisting Israel was actually feeding the people of the devastated Palestinian territory.

"Those who peddle the blood libels of genocide against Israel are no better than those who peddled the blood libels against Jews in the Middle Ages," Mr. Netanyahu said.

Mr. Netanyahu called countries’ recognition of Palestinian state ‘shameful.’

People walk out before Netanyahu’s speech

He spoke after dozens of delegates from multiple nations walked out of the UN General Assembly hall en masse as he prepared to speak.

He aggressively ruled out Palestinian statehood in his speech to those delegates who stayed to listen that it would be

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