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James Landale Peter Bowes
Diplomatic correspondent North America correspondent
Today’s recognition of the state of Palestine by three European countries is on one level prosaically diplomatic: documents will be exchanged, consulates will become embassies, representatives will transform into ambassadors. The UN Security Council has called an emergency meeting for today to discuss an Israeli air strike which killed dozens of displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday.
On another level it is deeply political. Ireland, Norway and Spain want to revive focus on a two-state solution. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the strike as a "tragic mishap," but there's growing international condemnation of the incident
It is not enough, they say, to work only for a ceasefire and hostage exchange. And they are acting together to put pressure on their counterparts to follow suit. The closed door emergency meeting of the Security Council was requested by Algeria - and comes after the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres added his voice to the international outcry over the Rafah attack.
Israel is outraged, saying this rewards terrorism. It’s withdrawn its own ambassadors from the three countries and formally reprimanded their envoys in Israel. He said the situation there was "a horror that had to stop" and that there was "no safe place in Gaza."
All this may encourage Palestinians and shift the diplomatic dial but it’s unlikely to change much on the ground. According to the Hamas-run health ministry at least 45 people were killed by the strike on Sunday. Hundreds more were treated for severe burns, fractures and shrapnel wounds.
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