Who recognises the State of Palestine, who doesn’t, and why does it matter?
Here is an overview of the diplomatic recognition of the state, which was declared unilaterally by the Palestinian leadership in exile in 1988.
Israel is currently invading the West Bank from the region claimed by the state and the Gaza Strip is largely ruined.
– Which countries recognize or recognize the Palestinian state? –
Answer: Three quarters of UN members.
According to AFP, at least 145 countries from 193 UN members know the Palestinian state.
AFP has not yet received approval from three African countries.
The number of England and Canada -the first G7 countries -Australia and Portugal.
Some other countries, including France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Malta, are expected to follow the case during a summit on the future of the two -state solution in the United Nations Center in New York under the chairmanship of France and Saudi Arabia on Monday.
Russia, as well as all Arab countries, almost all Africa and Latin American countries, and most Asian countries, including India and China, are already on the list.
Algeria, a few sides of the Late Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat unilaterally declared an independent Palestinian state a few later, on November 15, 1988, it was the first country to officially recognize a Palestinian state.
Duzin other country watched the case in the coming weeks and months, and in the late 2010 and early 2011, there was another wave of recognition.
The Israeli attack in Gaza, the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas on October 7, 2023, triggered by the Israeli attack, now directed 13 countries to recognize the state.
– Who does not? –
Answer: at least 45 countries, including Israel, the United States and its allies.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government completely rejects the idea of the Palestinian state.
Asia, Japan, South Korea and Singapore are among the countries that do not know Palestine.
Cameroon in Africa is not most countries in Panama and Oceania in Latin America.
Europe is the most divided continent on the subject and is almost 50-50 divided by the Palestinian state.
Until the mid -2010s, the only countries that recognized the Palestinian province outside Türkiye were the former Soviet block.
Now, some former East-Bloc countries, such as the Hungary and the Czech Republic, do not recognize a binary level of Palestinian state.
Western and Northern Europe, except Sweden known in 2014, united without recognition so far.
However, the war in Gaza, Norway, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia followed the footprints of Sweden, and in 2024, England and Portugal followed to recognize the state before doing so.
Italy and Germany do not plan to recognize a Palestinian state.
– What does recognition mean? –
Romain Le Boeuf, a professor of international law at the University of Aix-Marseille in Southern France, described the recognition of the Palestinian state as a half point between political and legal “one of the most complex questions in international law.”
He said that the AFP states were free to choose the timing and form of recognition of large variations that are open or implicit.
According to Le Boeuf, there is no office to record a recognition.
“The Palestinian authority in the West Bank, everything they think as recognition actions in their list, only from a completely subjective point of view. Likewise, other states will say that they do not recognize or recognize, but really without having to justify themselves,” he said.
However, there is a point where international law is quite clear: “Recognition does not mean that a state is created, more than the lack of recognition prevents the existence of the state.”
Recognition is largely symbolic and political, while three -quarters of the countries say that Palestine meets all the necessary conditions to become a state “.
“For many people, it seems only symbolic, but in fact, in terms of symbolism, it is a kind of game exchanger.”
“Because when you know the Palestinian state of state … Essentially you put Palestine and Israel straight in terms of treatment of international law.”
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