Israel’s Netanyahu vows to refute Palestinian ‘lies’ at UN general assembly

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to New York on Sunday, vowing to expose ‘slander and lies’ laid out by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in his UN speech. 

In a Friday address to the UN general assembly, Abbas accused Israel of carrying out a ‘genocidal crime’ in its 50-day war against Gaza militants in which nearly 2,200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed. ‘In my speech to the general assembly, I will refute the lies that are being told about us and I will tell the truth about our state and the heroic soldiers of the IDF, the most moral army in the world,’ Netanyahu said on the tarmac at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv before boarding the plane.