Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday.
“A two-state solution is humanity’s best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza,” the PM told reporters in Canberra.
He said that Australia’s decision was predicated on reassurances from the Palestinian Authority that there would be “no role for the terrorists of Hamas in any future Palestinian state.”
The Palestinian Authority, however, does not have a presence in Gaza, which has been governed by Hamas for nearly two decades.
France, the UK, and Canada have recently also announced they would recognize a Palestinian state, which Israel and the United States denounce as rewarding Hamas terrorism.
