(26 Sep 2024)
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New York – 26 September 2024
1. Various of protesters gathered and chanting
2. Various of protesters holding signs and waving Palestinian flags
3. Tracking shot of NYPD officers
4. Various of women leading chants ahead of the march
5. Various of protesters marching
AP video shot by: David R. Martin
STORYLINE:
Thousands of protesters gathered in New York Thursday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s U.N. General Assembly speech. Netanyahu is set to address the General Assembly on Friday.
A gifted orator, he has long viewed speeches from such venerated perches as the optimal way to deliver a message and score political points with Israelis enthralled by his flawless English and fiery delivery.
At the U.N., Netanyahu will seek to persuade a world growing increasingly exasperated by Israel’s war in Gaza that its aims are righteous.
He may try to galvanize the world behind an Israeli war against Hezbollah. And he is likely to lay blame for the region’s chaos on Iran, a repeated focus of his speeches at home and abroad.
That he is making the trip at all, at a time of escalating violence with Hezbollah, points to how much significance he places on the speech.
More protests are expected during his visit.
New York is home to Columbia University, site of some of the most intense campus demonstrations of recent years this spring — by students objecting to the bloodshed in Gaza.
Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving leader, has been a divisive figure internationally for years, with his hard-line approach to the Palestinians in particular frustrating world leaders. But his handling of the war in Gaza has further stained his global perception.
The war was set off by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, which killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and saw 250 people dragged as hostages into Gaza. Many Israelis blame Netanyahu and his policies for allowing Hamas to develop the military capacity for being able to burst through Israel’s vaunted defenses and stage the attack.
The war has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians, according to health officials in Gaza, and has often wiped-out multiple members of the same family. It has displaced most of the tiny territory’s 2.3 million population, in many cases several times, and set off a humanitarian crisis that has caused widespread hunger and lack of access to basic services.
U.S.-led cease-fire efforts have stalled, and at home, Netanyahu has come under criticism for his failure to bring home the roughly 70 hostages still presumed to be alive and the bodies of some 30 others.
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