Five other countries are ready to announce the formal recognition of the state of Palestine: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, San Marino and Malta will join United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Portugal and will announce their decision today, while in New York the week of the United Nations General Assembly begins in New York. Therefore, 145 out of 193 the UN member countries who have adopted this measure, even if the recognition does not change the status of observer of the Palestinians at the United Nations, whose full membership was blocked by the United States.
France and Saudi Arabia in the evening will preside over a top of the glass palace, which will also participate the foreign minister Antonio Tajani, to relaunch the two -states solution. “Recognizing the state of Palestine today is the only way to provide a political solution to a situation that must end,” says the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
But the diplomatic pressure of these hours does not make Israel retreat. Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated yesterday that “there will be no Palestinian state” and today he confirmed that he intends to “go on with determination” in the operation in Gaza “until the objectives of the war are achieved”. “Our forces are now operating forcefully in the Gaza strip to definitively defeat Hamas and bring home all our hostages,” says Netanyahu who has not taken an official position on the requests of the extremist component of his government composed of the wing of the right ultra of Ben Gvir and Smotrich, who support the annexation of the West Bank in response to the recognition of the Palestinian state. The Israeli premier will have an interview with Trump on the sidelines of the UN assembly and it is possible that the theme will be addressed.
The same Trump according to the US and Israeli media reports, received a letter from Hamas who asks the US president to guarantee a 60 -day respite in Gaza in exchange for the release of half of the hostages. The letter would currently be in the hands of the Qatar who delivers it »to the head of the White House during the week. The US President on the sidelines of the works at the United Nations in New York will see the leaders of Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. But the United States remain firmly against the recognition of the Palestinian state.
In the meantime, the situation in the strip remains dramatic: Israel continues with the earth attack in Gaza City: according to the Ministry of Health of Hamas today are 61 victims.