The Conference on the Two-State Solution regarding Palestine and Israel will be held at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 22nd. The conference will be chaired by France and Saudi Arabia. French President Emmanuel Macron described the objectives of the conference and Palestinian state recognition as to garner the broadest international support for the Two-State Solution and to meet the legitimate aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians.
The conference was previously postponed due to the 12-Day Israel-Iran War.
President Macro reiterated that this recognition should involve a permanent ceasefire between Hamas and Israel and the eventual disarmament of Hamas. The French President also reiterated that Hamas will have no political future in Palestine and the Palestinian Authority should be reformed.
Officials from the Palestinian Authority have been denied visas by the US government to visit the conference. The French President is insisting that they should be granted entry to the US for the conference.
The US is opposing the plan by European states and Saudi Arabia to recognise the state of Palestine. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated that the plan has empowered Hamas and disrupted negotiations, however the positions of both sides have remained fundamentally unchanged with Hamas refusing to disarm and Israel refusing to withdraw from Gaza.
The US Department of State has also sanctioned three NGOs accusing them of supporting the International Criminal Court’s legal action against Israel. The organisations sanction are Al Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Al Mezan), and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR).
Israel has been escalating its siege activities in the West Bank along with making plans for further Israeli settlements, complicating plans to create a Palestinian State and weakening the Palestinian Authority in the process. Israel’s ethnic cleansing operation in the north of Gaza is also ongoing with plans to permanently occupy the area.
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