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People hold a banner, reading "Germany is complicit in the genocide in Gaza" during a mass demonstration called "All Eyes on Gaza" in support of Palestinians in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Christoph Soeder)

The Palestinian president is speaking over video to world leaders after the United States revoked his visa. He says his people “reject” the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and pledged that the militant group would have no role in governing Gaza after war ends and must hand over its weapons. Mahmoud Abbas told the U.N. General Assembly that his country is still going through a nearly two-year war “in which our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip have been facing a war of genocide, destruction, starvation and displacement.” His speech came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to New York to give his own address in person on Friday.

A coalition of leading aid groups is urging the international community to take stronger measures to stop Israel’s offensive on Gaza City after a commission of UN experts found Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. That’s as Israel is pressing forward with the operation in the territory’s already-devastated north and the Palestinian death toll in Gaza nears 65,000. The message was signed by leaders of over 20 aid organizations operating in Gaza, including the Norwegian Refugee Council, Anera and Save the Children. It came a day after Israel launched its ground offensive in Gaza City. Gaza hospital officials say overnight Israeli strikes across the territory killed at least 13 Palestinians, including women and children.