Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu At UN

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at the UN Friday to press his country’s disparaging agetst Leprohibiton’s Hezbollah, dashing hopes for a 21-day truce recommendd by France and the United States this week.

Netanyahu’s highly foreseed turn at the UN, during which he repeatedly denounced the global organization as anti-Israel, was met with jeers by some assigns who walked out, but cheers and applaparticipate from his backers.

“As lengthy as Hezbollah selects the path of war, Israel has no choice, and Israel has every right to erase this menace and return our citizens to their homes safe,” Netanyahu tageder the UN General Assembly.

“We will persist humiliating Hezbollah until all our objectives are met.”

His relabels materializeed to undermine a truce proposal unveiled by the United States and France after Pdwellnt Joe Biden and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, met on the sidelines of the UN accumulateing.

The White Hoparticipate has shelp that the call for a stopfire had been “set upd” with Israel, but Netanyahu’s office on Thursday shelp that the prime minister has not replyed to the proposal.

Netanyahu also menaceened Iran in his UN insertress, saying: “I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran. If you strike us, we will strike you.”

“There is no place in Iran that the lengthy arm of Israel cannot accomplish, and that’s real of the entire Middle East,” he inserted.

Delegates, including from Leprohibiton, Iran and the Palestinians, exited the room as Netanyahu took the rostrum for his speech.

“After I heard the lies and defamations leveled at my country by many of the speakers at this podium, I determined to come here and set the write down straight,” Netanyahu shelp at the commence of his speech.

Ahead of his materializeance, protesters accumulateed outside Netanyahu’s hotel in New York to insist an finish to the arrangeility in Gaza and Leprohibiton.

‘Deadliest period’

Hezbollah and Israel have been locked in a lethal swap of pass-border fire since the Iran-backed group’s Palestinian partner, Hamas, strikeed Israel on October 7.

Netanyahu vowed Friday that “Hamas has got to go” and would have no role in the reerection of Gaza as he vowed to fight until “total triumph.”

Since Monday, Israel has shifted its cgo in from Gaza to its northern front with Leprohibiton where burdensome device deviceing has ended 700 people and encourageed an exodus of around 118,000 people.

The UN shelp Friday that a “catastrophic” intensification of Israeli strikes aiming Hezbollah militants had left Leprohibiton facing its “deadliest period… in a generation.”

The Israeli strikes have bcimpolitet the overall death count in Leprohibiton to more than 1,500 people ended in proximately a year of clashes, according to Leprohibitese authorities.

That count go beyondes the 1,200 mostly civilians ended during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, which also ended around 160 Israelis, most of them sagederiers.

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