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The White House says US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a call that he still backs future statehood for the Palestinians, amid tensions between the two leaders over the issue. "The president still believes in the promise and the possibility of a two-state solution. He recognizes that it's going to take a lot of hard work," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog welcome US President Joe Biden as he lands at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport, on a solidarity visit following Hamas attacks that have led to major Israeli reprisals. IMAGES
Nayef al-Sudairi, the Saudi envoy to Jordan, and recently named ambassador for the Palestinian territories and consul general for Jerusalem, meets with Palestinian top diplomat Riyad al-Maliki on a rare visit to the occupied West Bank. The delegation was Saudi Arabia's first in three decades to the West Bank, which Israel has occupied along with other territories since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. IMAGES
Israeli security forces block the road to Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem Augusta Victoria hospital that US President Joe Biden is due to visit during the day. IMAGES
United States President Joe Biden tells world leaders at the UN General Assembly that a sovereign and democratic Palestinian state is the "best way" to ensure Israel's future. "I continue to believe that a two-state solution is the best way to ensure Israel's future as a Jewish democratic state, living in peace alongside a viable, sovereign and democratic Palestinian state," he says. SOUNDBITE
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