The United Kingdom and Portugal should officially recognize the state of Palestine on Sunday (21), despite the strong pressure by the United States and Israel. At the United Nations General Assembly, Monday (22) in New York, about ten countries should formalize their validation of the Palestinian state.
The United Kingdom and Portugal should officially recognize the state of Palestine on Sunday (21), despite the strong pressure by the United States and Israel. At the United Nations General Assembly, Monday (22) in New York, about ten countries should formalize their validation of the Palestinian state.
The United Kingdom, an ally near Israel, will take this measure already on Sunday, according to British Press. Prime Minister Keir Stmerer announced in July that his country would recognize a Palestinian state in the United Nations General Assembly, unless Israel had made a series of commitments by Gaza Strip, including a ceased in the two -year conflict.
Given the deterioration of the situation, with the terrestrial offensive on the city of Gaza in progress, the British premier should confirm his decision before the largest annual event of the United Nations, according to the BBC, the Press Association and the Guardian.
Stmerer believes that this measure will contribute to a peace process. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Labor leader of rewarding the “monstrous terrorism”.
Israeli offensive accelerated decisions
In Portugal, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Friday that Portugal “will recognize the state of Palestine” this Sunday. At the end of July, Lisbon announced the decision, in the light “of the extremely worrying developments of the conflict, both on a humanitarian level and from the repeated references to a possible annexation of the Palestinian territories”.
An increasing number of countries, including many close to Israel, has taken this symbolic measure in recent months, since Tel Aviv has intensified their offensive to Gaza, triggered by an attack by the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas in 2023.
In a summit covered by France and Saudi Arabia on Monday, to discuss the future of the two -states solution, it is expected that about ten countries confirm their formal recognition of the Palestinian state.
“The recognition of a Palestinian state is a consequence of the serious expansion in which we participated in the West Bank, the violence of the settlers in which we participated in the West Bank and the intention and indications we see to build, for example, the E1 project, which would seriously undermine a two-seasons solution”, said the British vice-minister David Lammy, who will represent London in the general assembly of the assembly of the assembly of the assembly of the assembly general, according to the press association.
Solution of two threatened states
The E1 project, approved by the Israeli government, is a plan for the construction of 3,400 housing units in the West Bank. The project was reported by the United Nations, among others, for dividing the Palestinian territory into two.
“As for what is happening in Gaza, we have to see the hostages released. There can be no room for Hamas,” said Lammy. About 75% of the 193 Member States of the United Nations recognize the Palestinian state, proclaimed by the Palestinian leadership in exile in 1988.
The latest awards occur when Israel launched a huge military campaign on the ground and aerial this week in the city of Gaza, in the north of the Palestinian territory, with the aim of destroying Hamas. On Friday, the Israeli army warned that he would attack the city of Gaza with “unprecedented force” after the escape of almost half a million residents, aggravating the terrible humanitarian crisis in the devastated territory, where the United Nations declared a state of famine.
On Tuesday, an independent investigation committee not sent to the Israel was committing a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, an accusation that the authorities of Tel Aviv denied. The attack of 7 October 2023 against Israel by Hamas caused the death of 1,219 people from the Israeli side, mainly civilians, according to official data.
According to the Ministry of Health of the Government of Hamas in Gaza, the Israeli reprisals cost the life of 65,062 Palestinians, mainly civilians, where Hamas took power in 2007.
AFP information
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