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LONDON, Sept 22 — Britain, Australia, Canada and Portugal yesterday recognised the State of Palestine, a historic shift in decades of Western foreign policy that drew swift anger from Israel.<\/p>\n

Though Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip welcomed the recognition as a victory, the move drew a furious response from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who vowed that a Palestinian state would never come to pass.<\/p>\n

Other countries, including France, are due to follow suit at the annual UN General Assembly opening on Monday in New York.<\/p>\n

Israel has come under huge international pressure over its war in Gaza, which has sparked a dire humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu denounced the push for recognition as “absurd”, claiming it would “endanger” Israel’s existence.<\/p>\n

“It will not happen. No Palestinian state will be established west of the Jordan River,” the Israeli premier said.<\/p>\n

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He later vowed to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which Israel has controlled since 1967 in an occupation considered illegal under international law.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu spoke after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain was formally recognising the State of Palestine “to revive the hope of peace for the Palestinians and Israelis, and a two-state solution”.<\/p>\n

The UK and Canada became the first members of the Group of Seven advanced economies to take the step.<\/p>\n

‘Moral victory’ <\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a watershed moment for Palestinians and their ambitions for statehood, with the most powerful Western nations having long argued recognition should only come as part of a negotiated peace deal with Israel.<\/p>\n

Three-quarters of UN members now recognise the State of Palestine, with at least 145 of the 193 member countries having done so, according to an AFP tally.<\/p>\n

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Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the move “recognises the legitimate and long held aspirations of the people of Palestine”, while Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel called the two-state solution “the only path to a just and lasting peace”.<\/p>\n

On the ground in Gaza, many saw recognition as an affirmation of their existence after nearly two years of war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.<\/p>\n

“This recognition shows that the world is finally starting to hear our voice and that in itself is a moral victory,” said Salwa Mansour, 35, who has been displaced from the southern city of Rafah to Al-Mawasi.<\/p>\n

“Despite all the pain, death and massacres we’re living through, we cling to anything that brings even the smallest bit of hope,” she added.<\/p>\n

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas hailed the recognitions as “an important and necessary step toward achieving a just and lasting peace”.<\/p>\n

Although a largely symbolic move, it puts the four countries at odds with the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump said last week after talks with Starmer that “one of our few disagreements” was over Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron insisted in an interview with a US TV network that despite France moving to extend recognition, releasing the hostages Hamas captured in 2023 would be “a requirement very clearly before opening, for instance, an embassy in Palestine”.<\/p>\n

‘Special burden’ <\/strong><\/p>\n

A growing number of longtime Israeli allies have shifted their long-held positions as Israel has intensified its Gaza offensive, which began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack.<\/p>\n

Since then, the Gaza Strip has suffered vast destruction, with a growing international outcry over the besieged coastal territory’s spiralling death toll and a UN-declared famine.<\/p>\n

The UK government has come under increasing public pressure to act, with thousands of people rallying every month on the streets.<\/p>\n

The UK was pivotal in laying the groundwork for the creation of the State of Israel through the 1917 Balfour Declaration.<\/p>\n

Starmer said today that Britain was acting “in the face of the growing horror in the Middle East”.<\/p>\n

He renewed calls for a ceasefire and again demanded Hamas release the remaining Israeli hostages.<\/p>\n

Branding Hamas a “brutal terror organisation”, Starmer also confirmed plans to bolster sanctions on the militants, denying recognition was a “reward”.<\/p>\n

Hamas’s attack on southern Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally of official figures.<\/p>\n

Israel’s retaliatory campaign has killed at least 65,208 people, also mostly civilians, according to figures from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, which the UN considers reliable.<\/p>\n

Many obstacles remain before statehood, including who would run the territory. — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LONDON, Sept 22 — Britain, Australia, Canada and Portugal yesterday recognised the State of Palestine, a historic shift in decades of Western foreign policy that drew swift anger from Israel. Though Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip welcomed the recognition as a victory, the move drew a furious response from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,…<\/p>\n

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