The United Nations Normal Meeting on Friday overwhelmingly endorsed a declaration outlining “tangible, time-bound and irreversible steps” towards a two-state resolution between Israel and the Palestinians, with out the involvement of Hamas. Israel rejected the declaration, calling it a prize for the fear group.
100 and forty-two nations voted in favor of the non-binding decision enshrining the New York Declaration, which additionally calls on Hamas to launch all hostages and condemns the fear group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught.
Becoming a member of Israel and america in opposing the decision have been Argentina, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, and Tonga. Twelve nations abstained.
It additionally requires “collective motion to finish the battle in Gaza, to attain a simply, peaceable and lasting settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian battle based mostly on the efficient implementation of the two-state resolution.”
The declaration, which was endorsed by the Arab League and co-signed in July by 17 UN member states, together with a number of Arab nations, additionally goes additional than condemning Hamas, searching for to completely excise the fear group from management in Gaza.
“Within the context of ending the battle in Gaza, Hamas should finish its rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority, with worldwide engagement and help, consistent with the target of a sovereign and impartial Palestinian State,” the declaration acknowledged.
Watch the second the Normal Meeting overwhelmingly voted to endorse the New York Declaration on the Peaceable Settlement of the Query of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Resolution.
The world chooses peace.
Palestine chooses peace. pic.twitter.com/U91yVEuCJc
— State of Palestine (@Palestine_UN) September 12, 2025
The New York Declaration contains dialogue of a “deployment of a short lived worldwide stabilization mission” to the battered area beneath the mandate of the UN Safety Council, aiming to help the Palestinian civilian inhabitants and facilitate safety duties to the Palestinian Authority.
The vote preceded an upcoming UN summit co-chaired by Riyadh and Paris on September 22 in New York, during which Britain, France, Canada, Australia, and Belgium are anticipated to formally acknowledge a Palestinian state. Israel has referred to as the deliberate recognition of a Palestinian state a “prize for terror,” and rejected the movement on Friday.
“The one beneficiary is Hamas …When terrorists are those cheering, you aren’t advancing peace; you’re advancing terror,” Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon mentioned.
The International Ministry referred to as it a shame.
Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein mentioned in a put up on X that Israel “completely rejects” the declaration, calling it proof that the Normal Meeting had change into “a political circus indifferent from actuality.”
Israel completely rejects the choice of the UN Normal Meeting this night.
As soon as once more, it has been confirmed how a lot the Normal Meeting is a political circus indifferent from actuality: within the dozens of clauses of the declaration endorsed by this decision, there may be not a single… pic.twitter.com/UAT2VaAysi
— Oren Marmorstein (@OrenMarmorstein) September 12, 2025
“There isn’t any reference to the straightforward undeniable fact that Hamas is solely answerable for the continuation of the battle, by way of its refusal to return the hostages and disarm,” Marmorstein mentioned.
“The decision doesn’t advance an answer of peace — quite the opposite, it encourages Hamas to proceed the battle,” he added.
“Israel thanks all of the nations that didn’t lend their hand to this disgraceful determination within the Normal Meeting.”
Palestinian Authority Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh welcomed the vote, writing on X, “This decision expresses worldwide willingness to help our individuals’s rights and constitutes an necessary step in direction of ending the occupation and attaining our impartial state on 1967 borders with (Israeli-annexed) east Jerusalem as its capital.”
The USA described the vote as “yet one more misguided and ill-timed publicity stunt” that undermined critical diplomatic efforts to finish the battle.
“Make no mistake, this decision is a present to Hamas,” US diplomat Morgan Ortagus instructed the Normal Meeting. “Removed from selling peace, the convention has already extended the battle, emboldened Hamas, and harmed the prospects of peace in each the quick and long run.”
French International Minister Jean-Noel Barrot mentioned the decision secured the worldwide isolation of Hamas.
“For the primary time in the present day, the United Nations adopted a textual content condemning it for its crimes and calling for its give up and disarmament,” he mentioned in a tweet.
“The truth that the Normal Meeting is lastly backing a textual content that condemns Hamas instantly is critical,” even when “Israelis will say it’s far too little, far too late,” Richard Gowan, UN Director on the Worldwide Disaster Group, instructed AFP.
“Now not less than states supporting the Palestinians can rebuff Israeli accusations that they implicitly condone Hamas,” he mentioned, including that it “presents a protect towards Israeli criticism.”
The battle in Gaza started with the October 7, 2023, assault, when 1000’s of Hamas-led terrorists invaded Israel, killing some 1,200 individuals and taking 251 hostages.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon (bottom-R) speaks throughout a Normal Meeting assembly to vote on the two-state resolution to the Palestinian query at United Nations headquarters (UN) on September 12, 2025, in New York Metropolis. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
The Hamas-run Gaza well being ministry says greater than 64,000 individuals within the Strip have been killed or are presumed lifeless within the preventing thus far, although the toll can’t be verified and doesn’t differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed over 22,000 combatants in battle as of August and one other 1,600 terrorists inside Israel through the October 7 onslaught.
Israel has mentioned it seeks to reduce civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas makes use of Gaza’s civilians as human shields, preventing from civilian areas together with properties, hospitals, colleges, and mosques.
Israel’s toll within the floor offensive towards Hamas in Gaza and in army operations alongside the border with the Strip stands at 465.
Terror teams within the Gaza Strip are holding 48 hostages, together with the our bodies of not less than 26 confirmed lifeless by the IDF. Twenty are believed to be alive, and there are grave issues for the well-being of two others, Israeli officers have mentioned.
Round three-quarters of the 193 UN member states acknowledge the Palestinian state proclaimed in 1988 by the exiled Palestinian management.
Nevertheless, after two years of battle have ravaged the Gaza Strip, along with expanded Israeli settlements within the West Financial institution and the acknowledged want by Israeli officers to annex the territory, fears have been rising that the existence of an impartial Palestinian state will quickly change into unattainable.
“We’re going to fulfill our promise that there will probably be no Palestinian state,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Thursday.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in the meantime, could also be prevented from visiting New York for the UN summit after US authorities mentioned they’d deny him a visa.
