(23 Sep 2025)
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New York – 23 September 2025
1. Various of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the U.N. headquarters, behind a security perimeter
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Claar, protester:
"We’re here because this is the most important thing in our time. It’s more than a humanitarian crisis, it’s more than ethnic cleansing, it is a genocide. And it’s been a genocide long before the U.N. declared it."
3. Demonstrators waving Palestinian flags, chanting and holding signs
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Claar, protester:
"I would love to see the U.S. to stop arming Israel, to stop sending any aid to Israel, and to do what we can to end the siege on Gaza and honestly hold ourselves accountable because we’re complicit and the U.N. is also complicit."
5. Various of demonstrators chanting
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lydia Buechler, protester:
"I don’t know what else to do, you know? There’s no… nobody is paying attention in our government. All of my tax money is funding this. There are children dying every single day. I just can’t stand waking up, reading the paper and seeing every single day 25 people killed, 40 people killed trying to get food. It’s really disturbing. So I don’t know, this is something, anyway."
7. Close of sign reading (English) ‘Israel is starving Palestinians to death’
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lydia Buechler, protester:
"I just want people to listen, and I feel nobody has been listening for a year, it’s horrible."
9. Various of demonstrators waving Palestinian flags, chanting and holding signs
STORYLINE:
A pro-Palestinian demonstration was held Tuesday in New York near the United Nations headquarters as world leaders convene for the General Assembly.
Demonstrators chanted, waved Palestinian flags and held signs demanding an end to the conflict.
The annual high-level gathering at the U.N. General Assembly this week will see more than 140 world leaders descend upon New York City in an effort to secure global peace and security despite growing divides on how to do that.
Nearly 90 heads of state, 43 heads of government and one crown prince are among the dignitaries to appear on the U.N. stage beginning on Tuesday to make their case for how to bring an end to regional conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, while addressing the growing climate crisis and the dangers posed by the rapid development and use of artificial intelligence.
On Monday France recognized Palestinian statehood aimed at galvanizing support for a two-state solution to the Mideast conflict.
The move came during a U.N. conference chaired by France and Saudi Arabia aimed at generating new support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which long precedes the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
The meeting and expanded recognition of Palestinian statehood are expected to have little if any actual impact on the ground, where Israel is waging another major offensive in the Gaza Strip and expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, and Monaco also announced or confirmed their recognition of a Palestinian state, a day after the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Portugal did. Germany, Italy and Japan took part in the conference but did not recognize such a state.
The U.S. and Israel boycotted the event, saying the international push for a Palestinian state rewards Hamas and makes it harder to reach a deal to halt the war and return the remaining hostages.
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