PMO asserts loudspeakers will only be along border, but IDF confirms they were placed inside Strip; hostage families note captives may hear PM: 'Don't shatter their hope'

The Israeli prime minister faced walkouts and protests at the United Nations but sent a message to his political base that he won’t bend to international pressure.

The prime minister spoke to a largely empty U.N. hall after a walkout by delegates, lashed out at the idea of a Palestinian state and vowed to keep fighting Hamas.

Netanyahu arrives at the U.N. under ICC pressure and global recognition of a Palestinian state. Israeli officials have launched an "October 7" campaign as he readies a combative speech.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes killed at least 32 people across Gaza overnight, health officials said, as international pressure grows for a ceasefire but Israel’s leader remains defiant about continuing the war.

Kirk, Carlson said, “felt that Bibi Netanyahu was a very destructive force. He was appalled by what was happening in Gaza. He was, above all, resentful that he believed Netanyahu was using the United States to prosecute his wars, for the benefit of his country, and that it was shameful and embarrassing and bad for the United States.”

It was Netanyahu’s first meeting with a senior Arab official since Israel’s Sept. 9 attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar, which the UAE condemned and protested by summoning Israel’s deputy ambassador. The UAE,

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has asked the Global Sumud Flotilla -- which is trying to ferry humanitarian aid through an Israeli naval blockade to the Gaza Strip -- to deliver its aid to Cyprus, after the group's boats came under drone attack in the Mediterranean Sea.