Canada and Malta both announced on Wednesday that they plan to formally recognise the state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in September, joining France and the United Kingdom, who announced earlier they would do so.
The move to recognise Palestine as a state comes amid a renewed push in Europe to put pressure on Israel to stop its devastating war in Gaza, which has led to widespread starvation in the strip, as well as to halt the expansion of settlements in the West Bank.
