‘It will not bind Israel’: Netanyahu rejects Western recognition of Palestinian state

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office posted on X, "A Palestinian state will not arise."

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.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (File Photo/AP)

"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.