Netanyahu Tells Mamdani 'Shame on You' as Dozens Walk Out of UN Speech; Abbas Calls Gaza War 'Genocidal' in Video Address

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly on Thursday, September 24, 2026, as delegates from dozens of countries walked out before he began speaking. Netanyahu said Israel had carried out 'the opposite of genocide' in Gaza, told NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani directly 'Shame on you' for what he called distorting facts and inverting victim and aggressor, thanked President Trump as Israel's 'greatest partner,' downplayed West Bank settler violence as the work of roughly 150 'young offenders,' criticized Turkey as a 'super-spreader of antisemitic lies,' and gifted a Starlink device to Iran's UN delegation. Mamdani, citing Netanyahu's active International Criminal Court arrest warrant, said the speech was meant to 'sanitize his genocide of Palestinians.' The same day, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the Assembly by prerecorded video from his office in Ramallah after the US denied him and other Palestinian officials visas to attend in person for a second consecutive year, calling the war in Gaza a 'genocidal war' causing an 'unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe' and saying Israeli forces were responsible for 'killing, destruction, starvation and attempts at displacement.' Abbas said Trump's 20-point peace plan and the UN Security Council resolution endorsing it had 'not materialized on the ground.' Qatar's deputy chief of mission and Turkish officials separately rejected Netanyahu's criticism of mediating states.