According to the Jamaran International Service, the Carnegie Endowment wrote that the recognition of the State of Palestine by Australia, Britain, Canada, and France is a decisive moment in the direction of the Palestinian issue and regional and global policies surrounding it.
Athough it does not stop the Israeli occupation, opens a new window in international diplomacy, erodes the traditional Western consensus, and puts the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination once again at the center of global attention.
As of September 2025, 157 of the 193 member states of the United Nations have acknowledged Palestine. Recent declarations from the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have increased pressure on other countries to do the same.
In the spring of 2024, several European and Caribbean nations, including Barbados, Ireland, Jamaica, Norway, and Spain, formally recognized the Palestinian state.
At the time, Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to listen to the world and stop the humanitarian catastrophe we are seeing in Gaza.”
Most recently, Australia, Belgium, Canada, and France have announced plans to recognize the State of Palestine.
Meanwhile, the United Kingdom has conditionally said it will recognize the Palestinian state if Israel does not meet criteria that include agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza.
US President Donald Trump has blasted the calls for recognition.
France and Saudi Arabia will co-host a meeting on Palestinian recognition during the UNGA on September 22 in New York.
Long-time Western allies of Israel, including Belgium, France, the UK, Canada, and Australia, had earlier announced plans to recognize Palestinian statehood during the upcoming UN General Assembly sessions from September 8–23. They would join 147 nations that already formally recognize Palestine.
Around three-quarters of the 193 UN member states recognize the Palestinian state proclaimed in 1988 by the exiled Palestinian leadership.
In the most recent development, in a move that surprised many astute political pundits, the Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas released a very strategic and diplomatic response on Friday to US President Donald Trump’s 20-point “Gaza plan.”
The group agreed, in principle, to release all remaining Israeli captives and to transfer administrative authority to a transitional body as part of a framework to end the year-long genocidal war on Gaza.
However, Hamas underscored that any decision concerning Gaza’s future governance must be rooted in national consensus and determined by the Palestinian people themselves, not by external actors.
Political analysts described Hamas’s response as a diplomatic masterstroke that caught Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu off guard and exposed his plans to again derail the process.
The Israeli regime continues its genocidal campaign in Gaza while occupying more parts of the besieged territory.
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, ongoing since October 2023, has so far killed more than 66,000 Palestinians and left more than 167,000 injured.