The State of Palestine is currently recognized by 143 countries. Al Jazeera has published a list of these and those who have expressed an intention to align themselves in light of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Certain states are revising the positions they held up to now.
Norway, Ireland and Spain have announced they will formally recognize Palestine as a state on Tuesday.
This made Israel immediately recall its envoys to Ireland and Norway for “urgent consultations”, saying that “Israel will not go over this in silence”.
In an act of retaliation, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he will stop transferring tax funds to the Palestinian Authority (PA). Israel, which occupies the West Bank illegally under international law, is required to transfer taxes collected from the Palestinian territory to the PA, which governs it.
Slovenia, Malta, and Belgium are discussing whether and when to recognise Palestinian statehood.
Most of the Middle East, Africa and Asia recognize Palestinian statehood.
The United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea and many Western European states do not.
The countries who have recognised Palestine this year are the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados.
In 2014, Sweden became the first country in Western Europe to recognize Palestine.
Since then, the following countries have joined in this support:
2023: Mexico
2018: Colombia
2015: Saint Lucia
2014: Sweden
2013: Guatemala, Haiti, the Vatican
2012: Thailand
2011: Chile, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Lesotho, South Sudan, Syria, Liberia, El Salvador, Honduras, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Iceland
Before that, the following countries recognized Palestinian statehood:
2010: Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador
2009: Venezuela, Dominican Republic
2008: Costa Rica, Lebanon, Ivory Coast
2006: Montenegro
2005: Paraguay
2004: East Timor
1998: Malawi
1995: South Africa, Kyrgyzstan
1994: Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Papua New Guinea
1992: Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
1991: Eswatini
1989: Rwanda, Ethiopia, Iran, Benin, Kenya, Equatorial Guinea, Vanuatu, Philippines
1988: Algeria, Bahrain, Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cuba, Jordan, Madagascar, Malta, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Serbia, Zambia, Albania, Brunei, Djibouti, Mauritius, Sudan, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Egypt, The Gambia, India, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Namibia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Vietnam, China, Burkina Faso, Comoros, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Mali, Mongolia, Senegal, Hungary, Cape Verde, North Korea, Niger, Romania, Tanzania, Bulgaria, Maldives, Ghana, Togo, Zimbabwe, Chad, Laos, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Republic of Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon, Oman, Poland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Botswana, Nepal, Burundi, Central African Republic, Bhutan, Western Sahara
