Palestinians take statehood bid to the UN

Name: Palestinians take statehood bid to the UN
Uploaded: 2011-09-19T01:29:20.000Z
Duration: 2 min 32 s
Description: This week Palestinians are expected to go the United Nations in New York to ask to become recognised as a state.

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This week Palestinians are expected to go the United Nations in New York to ask to become recognised as a state.

Such a state would include the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, all land Israel captured in 1967.

The Israeli leadership is fiercely against the move, which comes a year after US led Middle East peace talks collapsed.

The BBC's West Bank correspondent, Jon Donnison reports.

Middle East

19 September 2011