Live Updates: France and Other Nations Recognize Palestinian Statehood at U.N. Summit [View all]

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Sept. 22, 2025, 6:06 p.m. ET 23 minutes ago
Live Updates: France and Other Nations Recognize Palestinian Statehood at U.N. Summit

France became the latest Western nation to formally recognize Palestinian sovereignty, which remains a largely symbolic gesture. It was followed by calls for Israel to end the war in Gaza and stop its expansion of West Bank settlements.


Sept. 22, 2025, 6:00 p.m. ET 28 minutes ago

Catherine Porter Farnaz Fassihi and Ephrat Livni


Here’s what to know about the Palestinian statehood conference.

France, Luxembourg and Malta became the latest countries to formally recognize Palestinian statehood on Monday, declaring at the annual gathering of the United Nations General Assembly in New York that such a path was the only one to a peaceful future for Israel.

Declaring that “the time has come,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said, “A solution exists to break the cycle of war and destruction.” He spoke at the start of a conference on Palestinian statehood, where his nation joined roughly 150 others that already made similar, though highly symbolic, announcements. “It is the recognition of the other — of their legitimacy, their humanity and their dignity,” Mr. Macron added.

The announcements came a day after Australia, Britain, Canada and Portugal made their own endorsements of Palestinian statehood, an effort to help salvage the prospect of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But that is looking as distant as ever as the Gaza war nears the end of its second year, Israel rapidly expands its settlements in the West Bank, and the humanitarian crisis in the enclave grows more dire.

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Ahead of the conference, the General Assembly ratified with an overwhelming majority — 142 votes in favor — the “New York Declaration,” a document put forward by France and Saudi Arabia that calls for the creation of a Palestinian state next to the existing Israeli one.

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