{"id":441526,"date":"2025-09-21T18:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/441526\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T18:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:46:21","slug":"australia-britain-canada-formally-recognize-palestinian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/441526\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia, Britain, Canada formally recognize Palestinian state"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept. 21 (UPI) — Three of Israel’s oldest allies — Australia, Britain and Canada — formally recognized the state of Palestine on Sunday, and more countries are expected to follow suit in the coming week.<\/p>\n

The three countries join 147 other nations that recognize Palestine as a sovereign state. Also expected to make announcements — some Monday at a U.N. conference to discuss a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict — are Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, Malta, and possibly Lichtenstein and New Zealand — according to The Guardian.\n<\/p>\n

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said London’s decision to recognize Palestine was in an effort to support the possibility of a two-state solution, which it views as being under threat amid the war with Israel.<\/p>\n

She also said Hamas<\/a> “can have no role” in the future of an independent Palestine and called for the release of the remaining hostages from the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.\n<\/p>\n

“Recognition is only one part of what must be a stronger and wider push for peace,” she said<\/a>. “We need to end the conflict in Gaza<\/a>, secure the release of all hostages and get humanitarian aid to all those who desperately need it.\n<\/p>\n

“That requires not just an immediate cease-fire, but a plan for a durable peace, which will be a key to my diplomatic drive at the U.N. this week.”<\/p>\n

Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, welcomed Sunday’s announcement.<\/p>\n

“Any step to strengthen the legitimate Palestinian rights, foremost among them the full sovereign Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem and the right to self-determination, is a welcomed step,” he told CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In response to the announcements by Australia, Britain and Canada, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> accused members of the international community of attempting to “force a terror state upon us in the heart of our land.”<\/p>\n

“I have a clear message to those leaders recognizing a Palestinian state after the horrific massacre of October 7th: You are giving a massive prize to terror,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“There will be no Palestinian state.”<\/p>\n

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\t\t Palestinians flee south from Gaza City amid intensified Israeli shelling during a military operation in central Gaza, on September 18, 2025. Photo by Hassan Al-Jadi\/UPI | License Photo<\/a>\t\t \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 21 (UPI) — Three of Israel’s oldest allies — Australia, Britain and Canada — formally recognized the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[6505,748,393,2194,4884,835,1144,712,2582,16,15,1764,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-441526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-gaza","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-hamas","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-top-news","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wales","22":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115243777390036157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}