Palestinians who recently fled Gaza City to areas in the south, blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations Friday, saying that the 23-month war in Gaza should stop.

"We are psychologically, physically, morally and financially tired from everything. We cannot take it anymore and he (Netanyahu) wants to continue the war on Gaza," said Amjad Abdel Daiym who was recently displaced from Gaza City.

Surrounded by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Netanyahu told fellow world leaders that his nation “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza, giving a defiant speech despite growing international isolation over his refusal to end the devastating war.

“Western leaders may have buckled under the pressure," Netanyahu said. “And I guarantee you one thing: Israel won’t.”

Netanyahu's speech, aimed as much at his increasingly divided domestic audience as the global one, began after dozens of delegates from multiple nations walked out of the U.N. General Assembly hall en masse Friday as he began.

Responding to countries’ recent decisions to recognize Palestinian statehood, Netanyahu said: “Your disgraceful decision will encourage terrorism against Jews and against innocent people everywhere.”

Palestinians who fled to Wadi Gaza in central Gaza on Friday said that whether Netanyahu accepts or not, there is a Palestinian state that is recognized by a large number of countries.

"In his (Netanyahu's) speech, he said there will be no Palestinian state. There is a Palestinian state against his will," added Abdel Daiym.

Last week, Israel launched its offensive in Gaza City vowing to overwhelm a city already in ruins from nearly two years of war.

Many Palestinians have left Gaza City to safer areas in the south but hundreds of thousands remain amid the Israeli offensive.

While more than 150 countries now recognize a Palestinian state, the United States has not, providing Israel with vociferous support.

But President Donald Trump signaled Thursday there are limits, telling reporters in Washington that he wouldn't let Israel annex the occupied West Bank.

Israel hasn't announced such a move, but several leading members in Netanyahu's government have advocated doing so.

Officials recently approved a controversial settlement project that would effectively cut the West Bank in two, a move critics say could doom chances for a Palestinian state.

Trump and Netanyahu are scheduled to meet Monday.

Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war, then withdrew from Gaza in 2005.

The Palestinians want all three territories to form their envisioned state, part of a "two-state solution" that Netanyahu opposes robustly.

He maintains that creating a Palestinian state would reward Hamas.

On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants launched air and ground attacks on southern Israel, killing some 1,200 and taking more than 250 hostages. Israel’s 23-month military campaign in Gaza has killed more than 65,100 people, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

AP Video shot by Wafaa Shurafa