{"id":445215,"date":"2025-09-23T07:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/445215\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:18:12","slug":"israeli-tanks-advance-into-gaza-city-as-trump-to-speak-at-un-general-assembly-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/445215\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli tanks advance into Gaza City as Trump to speak at UN General Assembly &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US is opposed to Palestinian statehoodpublished at 08:03 BST<\/p>\n<p>08:03 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ff74dca3-0b3e-42fb-be20-a9742026b497.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Paul Adams<\/strong><br \/>Diplomatic correspondent<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump at Chequers stood in front of the US and UK flags\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5b400ed4-c9f7-4a6a-abca-6d119e66d9a7.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, ReutersImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On a state visit to the UK last week, Trump acknowledged he had a &#8220;disagreement with the prime minister [Starmer] on that score&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Trump administration has never made any secret of its opposition to recognition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In fact, it&#8217;s clear that the US position has hardened into outright opposition to the very concept of Palestinian independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In June, the current US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said he thought the US no longer supported the creation of a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More recently, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that Hamas would &#8220;feel more emboldened&#8221; by the international push to recognise Palestine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His words, during a joint news conference with Netanyahu on 15 September, echoed the Israeli argument that recognition is a &#8220;reward for terrorism,&#8221; following the devastating Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rubio also says the US has warned those advocating recognition that it&#8217;s likely to provoke Israel into annexing the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We told them that it would lead to these sorts of reciprocal actions and that it would make a ceasefire [in Gaza] harder,&#8221; he told reporters at the beginning of September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US is opposed to Palestinian statehoodpublished at 08:03 BST 08:03 BST Paul AdamsDiplomatic correspondent Image source, ReutersImage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-445215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115252396769465895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}