"Netanyahu arrived in New York. Some staff at his hotel were arrested for refusing to provide meal services to him," reads simplified Chinese sticker text over a video on TikTok shared on September 26, 2025.
The clip -- viewed more than 140,000 times -- begins with footage of Netanyahu disembarking from his plane before it cuts to people being led out of a hall as they shout "housing is a human right".
Similar claims surfaced on Douyin, X, Facebook, and Bilibili as he arrived in New York on September 25, a day before he delivered a defiant speech at the UN General Assembly denying accusations of genocide in Gaza and denouncing Western countries for embracing Palestinian statehood (archived link).
This was followed by a visit to the White House four days later, where he backed US President Donald Trump's wide-ranging Gaza peace plan that calls for a ceasefire, release of hostages by Hamas within 72 hours, disarmament of Hamas and gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, followed by a post-war transitional authority headed by Trump himself (archived link).
Israel and Hamas agreed on October 9 to the first phase of a deal, which includes the militant group releasing hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and Israeli troops pulling back to an agreed line (archived link).
The Gaza war was triggered by Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that killed 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally from Israeli official figures.
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