Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, says Prime Minister Albaniz

Prime Minister Anthony Albaniz said that Australia will get to know a Palestinian state France, Britain and Canada In the reference they will do it.

His remarks followed weeks from urging him from within the cabinet and many in Australia to recognize a Palestinian state and amid increasing criticism from his government officials for its suffering in Gaza, which Albaniz referred to on Monday in the name of a “humanitarian catastrophe”.

The Australian government has also criticized the plans announced by Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu in recent days due to a new military attack in Gaza.

Albaniz told the correspondents after the cabinet meeting on Monday that Australia’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state will be an official nature to the United Nations General Assembly in September. Albaniz said this recognition “drained on the obligations that Australia received from the Palestinian Authority.”

Those The obligations did not include any role of Hamas In a Palestinian government, clearing Gaza and holding elections.

“The two -state solution is the best hope for humanity in breaking the cycle of violence in the Middle East and ending conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza.”

“The situation in Gaza exceeds the worst concerns of the world,” he said. “The Israeli government continues to challenge international law and deny adequate aid, food and water for desperate people, including children.”

Before Albaniz’s announcement, Netanyahu criticized on Sunday Australia and other European countries that moved to recognize a Palestinian state.

The Israeli leader said: “That European and Australia go to the hole of the rabbit … This is Canard, disappointing and I think it is already shameful.”

Australia has set a terrorist entity, and on Monday, Australia reiterated his government’s calls to the group to return the Israeli hostages who have been held since October 7, 2023.

The Australian leader spoke last week to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose authority runs parts of the occupied West Bank, supporting a two -state solution and cooperating with Israel on security issues.

Abbas agreed to the circumstances with Western leaders, including Albaniz, because they are ready to recognize a Palestinian state.

“This is an opportunity to present the self -determination to the people of Palestine in a way that isolates Hamas, removes it and graduated from the area once and forever,” Albaniz said. He added that Hamas did not support the solution of the state.

Nearly 150 of 193 United Nations members have already recognized the Palestinian state, most of them decades ago.

The United States and other Western authorities have stopped, saying that the Palestinian state should be part of a final agreement to resolve the Middle East dispute for decades.

Advertising advertisements are largely symbolic and rejected by Israel.

A solution from the two countries will witness a state of Palestine that was created alongside Israel in most or all the occupied West Bank, which is the Gaza Strip, which was converted into the attached war and East Jerusalem, which Israel seized in the Middle East war in 1967 that the Palestinians want for their country.

Albaniz rejected the suggestions on Monday that this step was only symbolic.

“This is a practical contribution to building momentum,” he said. “This is not Australia behaves alone.”

He said that Albanez discussed Australia’s decision with British, France, New Zealand and Japan leaders. He also added, “long discussion” with Netanyahu this month.

In neighboring New Zealand, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Monday that his government “will carefully weigh its position” to recognize a Palestinian state before making an official decision in September.

“New Zealand was clear for some time because our recognition of the Palestinian state is the issue of Matthew, not,” Peters said in a statement.