2025-09-26: Two-state Solution in Palestine Roundup

So far today: 2025-09-27 04:18am GMT

| Reuters | (2025-09-26). Abbas pledges to work with Trump on Gaza. tribune.com.pk Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged at the United Nations on Thursday to work with US President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia, France and the United Nations on a peace plan for Gaza overwhelmingly backed by the world body. | The 193-member UN General Assembly earlier this month overwhelmingly endorsed a seven-page declaration that aims to advance a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians and end the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas militants. | The declaration emerged from an international conference at the UN in July — hosted by Saudi Arabia and France — on the decades-long confl…

newarab (2025-09-26). UNGA: Abbas presses Hamas disarmament, Saudi pledges PA funding. newarab.com The future of Gaza took centre stage at the Palestinian Authority President UN member states voted 145-5 to allow Abbas to address the international body remotely after the US barred more than 80 Palestinians from entering the country. | He…

| Reuters | (2025-09-26). Trump vows West Bank annexation by Israel will not happen. tribune.com.pk US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank, rejecting calls from some far-right politicians in Israel who want to extend sovereignty over the area and snuff out hopes for a Palestinian state. | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has faced some pressure from allies to annex the West Bank, prompting alarm among Arab leaders, some of whom met on Tuesday with Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. | "I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. Nope, I will not allow it. It's not going to happen," Trump told reporters in the Ov…

Reuters (2025-09-26). Trump says he 'will not allow' Israel to annex West Bank after Saudi warning. scmp.com US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank, rejecting calls from some far-right politicians in Israel who want to extend sovereignty over the area and snuff out hopes for a Palestinian state. | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has faced some pressure from allies to annex the West Bank, prompting alarm among Arab leaders, some of whom met Trump on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

| AFP | (2025-09-26). Mass walkouts at UN as Netanyahu takes stage. tribune.com.pk Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage Friday at the United Nations to a mass walkout of delegations as well as cheers from supporters invited to the audience. | Delegates were called to order as Netanyahu began his speech, the first of the day at the annual General Assembly. | Netanyahu said his country has "crushed the bulk" of armed Palestinian group Hamas's "terror machine" and sought to finish the job "as fast as possible." | A sign left by the Iranian delegation with images of children they say were killed by Israel.PHOTO: REUTERS | Netanyahu celebrated what he said was a series of Israe…

aljazeera (2025-09-26). Trump says he 'will not allow' Israel to annex occupied West Bank. aljazeera.com US president rules out Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank but analysts question whether he'll follow through.

tn.ai (2025-09-26). Palestinian Resistance Strikes Israeli Forces in Gaza, Jenin. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Palestinian resistance groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have launched direct attacks on Israeli occupation military personnel and equipment in Gaza and the West Bank city of Jenin.

WiBOPM (2025-09-26). Madison, Lands of Palestine Baz Sundark Art Show Silent Auction October 3-13, 2025. wibailoutpeople.org Friday, October 3: Lands of Palestine Art Show and Silent Auction: Bidding Opens! 7 am Auction continues through Monday, October 13 Don't miss your chance to bid on one of these fabulous paintings inspired by photographs from the southern West Bank in the Baz Sundark Art Show & Silent Auctionfor Masafer Yatta Oct. 3-13. (Artwork will …

newarab (2025-09-26). Israel reopens Allenby Crossing on Jordan-West Bank border. newarab.com The Allenby or King Hussein Bridge, between the occupied West Bank and "Operations at the Karama crossing will resume as…

Democracy Now! (2025-09-26). After Protests, Microsoft Cuts Off Israel's Access to Cloud Services Used to Spy on Palestinians. democracynow.org Microsoft says it has barred the Israeli military from using technology it used to spy on millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and stored in Microsoft's vast Azure cloud computing platform. It's an unprecedented victory for No Azure for Apartheid, a group of current and former Microsoft workers demanding an end to Microsoft's work with the Israeli military. | Microsoft says it has barred the Israeli military from using technology it used to spy on millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and stored in Micro…

Amos Harel (2025-09-26). new Gaza plan has one palpable weak point: It clashes with promises to his voters. haaretz.com The U.S. President's plan apparently addresses reality on the ground, but giving the PA a foothold in Gaza and ending the war will endanger Netanyahu's coalition ‚ñ At a certain point, pressure from the Gulf states may tip the scales at the White House ‚ñ And the abuse of Palestinians in the West Bank is not a coincidence, but implementation of a clear plan…

newarab (2025-09-26). Trump says he will block Israel from annexing the West Bank. newarab.com

tehrantimes (2025-09-26). Trump: Israeli annexation of the West Bank 'not going to happen'. tehrantimes.com U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will not allow Israel to annex the occupied West Bank, AFP news agency reported.

aljazeera (2025-09-26). West Bank annexation could "unite Europe" against Netanyahu. aljazeera.com Professor Khaled Elgindy says an Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank would risk EU sanctions.

| Reuters | (2025-09-26). Microsoft suspends services to Israeli military unit over probe into monitoring of Palestinians. tribune.com.pk Microsoft (MSFT.O) said on Thursday it has disabled some services used by an Israeli military unit after preliminary evidence supported a media investigation that reported mass surveillance of Palestinian phone calls. | A joint investigation published in August by the Guardian and other media outlets found that an Israeli military agency was making use of Microsoft's Azure software to store countless recordings of mobile phone calls made by Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. | That prompted an internal review by Microsoft. | "We do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveill…

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg (2025-09-26). Microsoft Blocks Israeli Spy Agency From Using Its Cloud Platform, Azure. truthout.org Microsoft has blocked the Israeli army's access to technology it was using to store data on Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after an investigation conducted by the Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call exposed the practice. The investigation, published in August, revealed that Unit 8200, the Israeli military's cyberwarfare agency, had been intercepting millions of… |

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