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Israeli PM rejects Western recognitions of Palestinian state

AL-Monitor
Sep 24, 2025
FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the opening event of the largest-ever bipartisan delegation of American legislators to Israel at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on Monday, September 15, 2025. Debbie Hill/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the opening event of the largest-ever bipartisan delegation of American legislators to Israel at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on Monday, September 15, 2025. Debbie Hill/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo — DEBBIE HILL

(Reuters) -The recent recognitions by some Western nations of a Palestinian state will not "bind Israel in any way," Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday.

"A Palestinian state will not arise," the prime minister's office posted on X.

Dozens of world leaders gathered at the United Nations on Monday to embrace a Palestinian state, a landmark diplomatic shift nearly two years into the Gaza war that faces fierce resistance from Israel and its close ally the United States.

(Reporting by Menna Alaa El Dine, Writing by Muhammad Al Gebaly, Editing by Chris Reese)