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Ireland formally recognized the State of Palestine this Tuesday, joining Spain and Norway, the Irish government announced.

“The Government recognizes Palestine as a sovereign and independent State and has agreed to establish full diplomatic relations between Dublin and Ramallah”, says a Government statement, which also states that the recognition was approved at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning. fair.

According to the note, cited by Reuters, “an Irish ambassador will be appointed to the State of Palestine and an Irish Embassy will be created in Ramallah.”

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said the decision aims to keep hope for peace alive. “This decision by Ireland aims to keep hope alive. It is about believing that the two-state solution is the only way for Israel and Palestine to live side by side in peace and security”, he highlighted, in statements cited in the statement .

“I appeal once again to the Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu, to listen to the world and put an end to the humanitarian catastrophe we are witnessing in Gaza”, he further stressed.

It should be remembered that Norway and Spain have also formally recognized the State of Palestine, this Tuesday, as planned.

Slovenia and Malta also said they were considering taking this step soon and joining Spain, Ireland and Norway.

More than 140 countries already recognize Palestine as a state, some of them members of the European Union (EU), such as Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, which took the step in 1988, before joining the bloc. European.

Sweden did the same in 2014, fulfilling an electoral promise from the Social Democrats then in power.

The conflict was triggered by the attack by the Islamist group Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, which caused around 1,200 deaths and two hundred hostages, according to Israeli authorities.

Since then, Israel has launched an offensive in the Gaza Strip that has caused more than 36,000 deaths and a serious humanitarian crisis, according to Hamas, which has governed the Palestinian enclave since 2007.