To date, 149 of the 193 member countries of the United Nations officially recognize the state of Palestine.
Australia will recognize the state of Palestine on the occasion of the UN General Assembly in September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Monday.
“Peace can only be temporary” as long as the Israelis and the Palestinians do not have their states, said the head of labor government to the press, adding:
“Australia will recognize the right of the Palestinian people to its own state.”
The war in the Gaza Strip, launched after the unprecedented attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023, rekindled the inclinations to recognize the State of Palestine.
149 countries recognize the state of Palestine
International pressures are increasing on the Israeli government to find an outcome to the conflict, which led to a serious humanitarian crisis in the besieged Palestinian enclave. Violence in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, have also intensified since the start of the war in Gaza.
In total, three -quarters of the UN member states recognize the state of Palestine, proclaimed by the Palestinian management in exile in the late 1980s. This diplomatic act was carried out by a dozen countries since the start of the war in Gaza.
At the end of July, Australia and 14 other Western countries, including France and Canada, had “invited” the international community to recognize a state of Palestine, after a ministerial conference at the UN for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Albanese says he has received guarantees from the Palestinian authority, so that “no place (is given) to Hamas terrorists in any future Palestinian state”.
