The United Nations General Assembly convened on Friday, voting overwhelmingly to support the “New York Declaration,” a resolution outlining “tangible, time-bound and irreversible steps” toward a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, without the involvement of Hamas. While the resolution represents a significant shift in the international approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which for the first time, the UN explicitly condemns Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack while simultaneously demanding the terror organization’s complete removal from Gaza’s leadership, Israel rejected the declaration, calling it a prize for the terrorist organization.

Watch the moment the General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to endorse the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution.

The world chooses peace.
Palestine chooses peace. pic.twitter.com/U91yVEuCJc— State of Palestine (@Palestine_UN) September 12, 2025

The United Nations General Assembly’s overwhelming endorsement of a resolution calling for Palestinian statehood represents a deeply misguided approach that rewards terrorism and undermines genuine prospects for peace. With 142 countries voting in favor of this non-binding declaration, the international community has once again demonstrated its willingness to ignore the fundamental realities on the ground and hand Hamas a strategic victory.

The declaration states that the war must end and Hamas must disarm and submit to the Palestinian Authority, which will run the Palestinian state.

#BREAKING
UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution endorsing the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution

Voting result
In favor: 142
Against: 10
Abstain: 12 pic.twitter.com/38ilC20OYL— UN News (@UN_News_Centre) September 12, 2025

The Two-State Solution would create an unprecedented militarized Arab state inside Israel’s borders, ethnically cleansed of Jews, with its capital in an exclusively Muslim Jerusalem. This would require a return to the ceasefire lines drawn up after the defensive 1967 Six-Day War that are considered to be indefensible against an Arab threat. The UN resolution violates the Oslo Accords which require any resolution concerning Judea and Samaria to be the result of bilateral negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

Israel utterly rejects the decision of the UN General Assembly this evening.

Once again, it has been proven how much the General Assembly is a political circus detached from reality: in the dozens of clauses of the declaration endorsed by this resolution, there is not a single… pic.twitter.com/UAT2VaAysi— Oren Marmorstein (@OrenMarmorstein) September 12, 2025

Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon slammed the resolution.

“This one-sided declaration will not be remembered as a step toward peace, only as another hollow gesture that weakens this assembly’s credibility,” stated Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.

“This is not diplomacy,” he said. “It is theater.”

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