Celebrations on Ramallah after General Assembly approves upgraded status; Netanyahu denounces Abbas’s hate-filled speech; Abbas says UN has ‘moral duty’ to support him; Turkey hails Palestinians ‘from Jerusalem to Gaza’; US regrets ‘unfortunate, counterproductive’ vote; Israeli government sources say Oslo is dead.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has won the approval of the United Nations General Assembly for ‘Palestine’ as a nonmember state, a dramatic move that may have wide-reaching implications. Though Israel and the US vociferously opposed the move, it passed by a wide margin. The Times of Israel is liveblogging developments from Jerusalem and New York.
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