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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Crowds of Palestinians rallied in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday to celebrate the recognition of Palestine by multiple Western countries, news agency AFP reported. </p>
<p>Slogans blared from loudspeakers across the central square in the city of Ramallah, where a crowd displayed Palestinian and European flags alongside signs reading "stop the genocide".</p>
<p>High-ranking officials from Abbas's political movement, Fatah, and the Palestinian Authority also took part in the rallies. </p>
<p>"This recognition is a first step in a process that we hope will continue," Jibril Rajoub, secretary-general of Fatah's central committee, told AFP. </p>
<p>"It is the result of more than a century of resistance and determination by our people," Rajoub said, adding that he had felt moved listening to the speeches made at the UN General Assembly in New York the night before.</p>
<p>A majority of European powers now recognise a Palestinian state, following official declarations on Monday by France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta and others, after nearly two years of war in Gaza and soaring violence in the West Bank.</p>
<p>A day earlier, Britain, Australia, Canada and Portugal also announced the recognition of Palestine. </p>
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