As the Gaza War intensifies, France and Saudi Arabia will chair a well-known UN meeting on Monday. 2-state solution In the conflict between Israel and Palestinians, More countries It is expected to recognize the Palestinian state against Israel and the United States.
The Conference of the Palestinian State and expanded perception is expected to have little real impact on the earth where Israel is taking place. Another big attack in the Gaza Strip and Expanding the occupied West Bank settlement.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 3pm (1900 GMT) and several world leaders will speak. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will be attending the meeting on video after he and dozens of other Palestinian officials US visa denied Attend a meeting.
The UK, Canada, Australia and Portugal recognize the Palestinian state on Sunday, with Palestinians hoping that a total of 10 countries, including France, will do so in the coming days. Approximately three-quarters of the 193 United Nations Although they recognize Palestine, major Western countries have declined until recently.
The Palestinians welcomed the move to recognition, hoping that one day they might lead to independence. “This is a faint beginning or hope for the Palestinian people,” Fauzi Noor Al Dean joined thousands of people fleeing south from Gaza city on Sunday with a bag on his head. “We are people who deserve to have a nation.”
The international community is widely supportive of the Palestinian state
The creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, seized by Israel in the Middle East War in 1967, is widely seen internationally as the only way to resolve conflicts. Over a century ago Hamas’ October 7 attack sparked the war in Gaza almost two years ago.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government opposed the Palestinian state even before the war, and says that such a move now rewards Hamas, an extremist group that still controls parts of Gaza. He suggested that Israel may take unilateral measures accordingly. Annexation of the West Bank part of the Jordan Riverwhich puts the viable Palestinian state even further out of reach.
Netanyahu is under pressure from the far-right coalition to advance annexation, but the UAE is the driving force behind the 2020 Abraham Agreement, in which the UAE and three other Arab countries formed ties with Israel, calling it the “red line” without saying how it will affect the two countries.
Netanyahu said he will decide Israel’s response to the Palestinian state’s push after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House next week and at the fourth meeting since Trump took office. Israeli leaders are set to address the UN world leaders on Friday.
The Trump administration has also opposed growing awareness of the Palestinian state and blamed it for the derailment of the ceasefire talks with Hamas. Trump envoy Steve Witkoff left talks in July and earlier this month Israeli strike targeted negotiations in Hamas in Qatarkey mediator.
Palestinians are politically fragmented
Abbas’ internationally recognized Palestinian authorities are led by Hamas rivals and manage parts of the West Bank. It recognizes Israel, works together on security issues and works on solutions from two states. France and Saudi Arabia have proceeded with a phased plan for reformed Palestinian authorities to ultimately govern the West Bank and Gaza with international support. On September 12th, the vote was voted 142-10, and it was overwhelmingly supported at the general meeting. Twelve members withdrew.
Israel says Palestinian authority is not completely committed to peace and is denounced for inciting extremists. Many Palestinians Westerly Bank leadership sees it as corrupt and increasingly authoritarian.
Hamas, who won the last Palestinian national election in 2006, occasionally It suggested that it might accept the state of the 1967 line. However, all territories between the Jordan River, including the Mediterranean and Israel, are officially committed to the Palestinian state.
Israelis and Palestinians held US-mediated peace negotiations since the early 1990s, but those efforts repeatedly stalled due to the outbreak of violence and violence. Expanding Israeli settlements The purpose is to solidify control of the West Bank. Since Netanyahu took office in 2009, there have been no substantial peace negotiations.
Supporters of the two-state solution say without a Palestinian state, Israel must determine the current situation where millions of Palestinians live under military occupation No equal rightsor a bilateral state that may not have a Jewish majority.
