On the question of the risk, the decision could encourage Israel to speed up the plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, Albanese said that Australia could do nothing because hopes for a two -state solution are evaporated.

“We see the Israeli government continue to support illegal settlements and expansion on the West Bank,” he said.

“We see a disaster humanitarian crisis develop in Gaza. The idea that Israel is just leaning back and waiting to negotiate is not what is happening here. It is about the world saying it is enough, we want peace and security in the Middle East. This is Australia that plays a role.”

Netanyahu condemned the move on Sunday (Monday Aest) and said that recognition of a Palestinian state was a “huge reward for terrorism”.

“And I have another message to you: It will not happen. A Palestinian state will not be established west of the Jordan River,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi acclaimed the relocation of Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom and told the AFP news agency: “This development represents a victory for Palestinian rights and justice for our cause and sends a clear message: no matter how long the occupation goes in its crime it will never be able to delete our national rights.”

Foreign Minister Penny Wong said: “This is the moment, the best opportunity we have as a country to contribute to speed towards a two -state solution.”

Wong refused to say when or where Australia would set up an embassy in Palestine, but said that such steps would be conditional on the Palestinian authority that fulfills its commitments to reform and democratization.

Wong, however, said that the government would immediately begin to refer to the state of Palestine in official documents, rather than the previous nomenclature on “occupied Palestinian territories”.

Australia and Indonesia will work with the Palestinian authority to improve the curriculum for Palestinian students, she said.

The Executive Council for Australian Juda President Daniel Aghion attacked the decision and said: “Far from creating momentum against a two -state peace, the recognition of a Palestinian state will under these circumstances replace the process.

“Hamas and the other terrorist groups have already praised the move as a reward for their violence and rejection against Israel … They will now have less incentives, no more, to release hostages and disarm.”

The Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry praised Australia’s “bold and principle decisions” and says it “reflects a fixed commitment to international law, and shows a genuine commitment to terminate the occupation and achieve lasting peace.”

The move was criticized by the coalition, with liberal leader Sussan Ley who claimed that recognition would take place at the end of the peace process and not during the conflict.

“Today, the Albanese government extends a hollow gesture of false hope to the Palestinian people. For the Israeli people, it extends a chilly act of concession to the Hamas terrorists who continue to seek their Holocaust,” she said.

Albanese’s first meeting with Trump has not yet been locked up, but the couple will at least cross roads on a feature that Trump is worth in New York on Tuesday evening (Wednesday Aest) on the Sidel line for the UN General Assembly.

This is the first UN General Assembly that Albanese has participated since he took office in 2022, and the forum will allow him to meet a number of other world leaders, starting with the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, on Sunday (Monday Aest).

One of Albanese’s highest priorities, before traveling to London and Abu Dhabi, will gather other nations to join his government’s efforts to ban children under 16 from pursuing social media accounts.

Wong will also use the UN meeting to lobby other nations to support greater protection for relief workers working in conflict zones to honor Australian Zomi Frankcom, who died in Gaza in April 2024 while working for World Central Kitchen Charity.

When asked if there was a case to push Israel to a longer solution to the conflict with Palestine, Trump told a reporter at Air Force One: “You can make the case that you reward people, that you reward Hamas if you do, and I do not think they should be rewarded. So I am not in that camp.

While Albanese was on its way to the United States, 25 Republicans – including former presidential candidate Ted Cruz and other leading members of the Senate – urged him to release plans to recognize a Palestinian state.

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“Continuing with recognition will put your country in violation of long -term American politics and interests and can invite criminal measures in response,” Warned Republicans in a letter that was also sent to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Macron.

“The proposed recognition coincides with sharp increases in anti -Semitic activity in each of your countries. Jews are facing outstanding harassment and attacks against them becomes a common event … Unfortunately, your actions to legitimize a Palestinian terrorist state will only provide greater motivation against the violent anti -Semitic crowds.”

Among those who signed the letter were Florida Senator Rick Scott, Texas Senator John Cornyn, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton and Elise Stefanic, a congress woman in New York, who was Trump’s original election to serve as US ambassador for the UN.

Trump said during a trip to Britain last week that he did not disagree with Starmer on Palestinian recognition, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has strongly opposed recognition.

Rubio said that movements to recognize Palestine had encouraged Israel to avenge by threatening to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.

“We warned them because we thought it was counterproductive,” Rubio told reporters during a trip to the Middle East. “We actually believe that negotiations have been undermined because it characterized Hamas, and we believe it undermines the prospects for peace in the region.”

Albanese will speak later this week at a two -state solution conference worth of France and Saudi Arabia at the UN headquarters.

The government does not have to adopt legislation to recognize Palestine, and a vote is not required at the UN for individual countries to recognize new states.

Belgium will also use the UN General Assembly to formally recognize the Palestinian State, a step that the vast majority of UN Member States have already taken.

Netanyahu will address the UN this week before traveling to Washington for his third meeting in the White House with Trump this year.

Trump will also host Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a white house meeting this week.

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