Deir Al-Balah (AP) – The Palestinian and Israeli-occupied West Bank of the entire Gaza Strip welcomes the recognition of the Palestinian states of Western countries and doubts the movement will improve their dire situation.
On Monday, France, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta and Monaco announced or confirmed the recognition of the Palestinian state at the start of a well-known conference at the United Nations. 2-state solution To the Middle East conflict. Their announcement came the next day The UK, Canada, Australia and Portugal did the same. More countries do It is expected to follow Israeli and the US rebellion.
Said Abu Erais, a medic from the Jabariya refugee camp in northern Gaza, who has lost more than 20 families, including his wife and two daughters, said:
On Tuesday, September 23, 2025, evacuated Palestinians flee the Northern Gaza Strip while walking along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza.
“That’s also a phone call Stop genocide And to stop the Gaza massacre and the invasion of settlers in the West Bank,” he told The Associated Press.
Others downplayed the effects of perception.
Huda Masawabi called them “valuable”.
“We expect God to see someone outside acknowledge us or treat us as merely human beings,” she said.
Recent changes between nations have little short-term impact on the ground on which Israel is sailing. Major attacks in Gaza city attacked by hunger and Expanding the villages on the West Bank.
In the long run, the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, seized by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War, is widely seen internationally as the only way to resolve conflicts. Over a century ago Hamas attacked on October 7, 2023.
Evacuated Palestinians will walk through the Mwasi tent camp designated as a safe zone by Israel in the Khan Yunis Southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, September 21, 2025.
In Gaza, Palestinians hope that action will continue after the recognition of the state
Israel’s government was opposed to the Palestinian state, even before the outbreak of the war in Gaza, and now says it will reward Hamas. The Israelites have long feared that groups like Hamas who do not accept Israel’s existence will use independent states to attack it. Many view the West Bank as a biblical and historical center for the Jews.
The Palestinians in Gaza told the Associated Press they hope that national recognition will lead to ultimate independence, which comes as a cold comfort in the midst of Israel’s devastating 23-month war.
“What’s important to us is that the war will stop,” said Adhib Abu Khalid, a Palestinian from Gaza, who was walking at the market in Deir Al Bala on Tuesday. “Today we live in hunger. People are miserable.”
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, the war left the territory to abolish, expelling almost all Palestinians and killing at least 65,000 people. The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government and is staffed by medical professionals. I wouldn’t say how many civilians and combatants were, but women and children account for about half of them.
Omar al-Zakzauk, 7, lament the body of his two-year-old brother Marek, who was killed at a funeral in Deia Al-Bar, central Gaza Strip on Monday, September 22, 2025.
In that context, demonstrations of support from abroad provide a measure of comfort, like Nasar Asariya, a displaced person in Gaza city, and Palestinians eager to the ray of hope.
“It will have a positive impact on us, God willingly, regardless of the circumstances,” he said. “We are surprised people, and whatever makes us happy, no matter how simple it is, anything that supports us, will strengthen our resolve in light of this unfair lockdown.”
Approximately three-quarters of the 193 United Nations Currently, they recognize Palestinian states, but until recently the major Western countries have declined, saying that they will only come through negotiations with Israel.
Muradvanat, a Palestinian man who was kicked out of Gaza’s central brage camp, said that the recent perception was “just a story.”
“Everyone sees us like a play, like a TV series, like a TV series every day,” he said as children walked between tents in a packed evacuation camp.
Edit ID: We will arrive in the General Assembly Hall at the United Nations Headquarters on Monday, September 22nd, 2025. (AP Photo/Angelina Catanis)
Palestinians in the West Bank view the state’s perceptions as contradictory to reality
Since the start of the war, Israeli settlers have welcomed a vast strip of Israeli occupied West Bank, pushing the prospects of the adjacent Palestinian state out of reach.
The West Bank is the center of the future Palestinian state. Palestinians say current Israeli military attacks on Palestinian cities and towns have intensified settlers’ violence, and the expansion of state-backed settlements has consumed their lands and pushed the actual possibilities of the adjacent Palestinian state out of reach.
Nur al-Din Mansour, from Jenin, is one of tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank. I was kicked out of their home This is the first time since Israel began a massive operation at four Northern camps earlier this year. He said recognition is “a step in the right direction.”
“But what we want,” he added. “It’s not just a symbolic or nominal state. We want a fully sovereign state that maintains the border. We demand a Palestinian state based on the border of June 5, 1967.”
Mohammad Hamad, who also evacuated from the Jenin Camp, said, “After all, all this perception is meaningless. You are talking nonsense about perception while we are still occupied.”
“In the end, everything that’s going on is ink on paper.”
