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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his military's actions in Gaza during a UN General Assembly speech, calling delegates who walked out before he spoke 'moral cowards.' He also accused Qatar of running a campaign to 'brainwash young people' against Israel and the West, prompting a sharp rebuke from Qatar's foreign ministry, which called the claims a diversion from Israel's own conduct in the occupied Palestinian territories. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani went further, calling Netanyahu the 'biggest obstacle' to implementing the US-brokered Gaza peace plan, alleging Israel was acting against the plan for Netanyahu's political benefit. Commentators noted that what Netanyahu omitted from his UN address—new Iran intelligence, Saudi peace talk mentions, or praise for Trump—was itself notable, amid ongoing friction between Israel, Qatar, and the US over Gaza's postwar trajectory.