- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN General Assembly via a prerecorded video from Ramallah, stating that Gaza faces a genocidal war and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.
- Abbas delivered his remarks remotely after the United States denied visas to him and other top Palestinian officials for the second year in a row.
- The Palestinian leader urged the international community to take tangible action against Israel and questioned why nations continue supplying weapons used against his people and let them create “a genocidal war that has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.”
- Abbas strongly rejected displacement, affirming that Palestinians will not leave their homeland or allow others to decide their future.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to speak in person later in the day, with Israeli delegation seats remaining vacant during Abbas's address.
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