Palestinian state recognition.
Several Western countries gave their renewed backing for a two-state solution to the conflict this week, with Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Malta and Portugal all recognising Palestinian statehood. Around three-fourths of the 193-member United Nations now officialy recognise a Palestinian state. On the sidelines of the United Nati
ons General Assembly in New York, French President Emmanuel Macron told French broadcaster France 24 his country had recognised a Palestinian state on the basis that it "is the only way to isolate Hamas," which has survived as an entity despite many of its leaders having been killed.