Luxembourg said Tuesday it will join a raft of countries recognizing a State of Palestine at a United Nations summit in New York next week.

French President Emmanuel Macron is spearheading the drive to recognize a Palestinian state as international condemnation of Israel grows over the nearly two-year war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza that was set off by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 invasion, massacres, and hostage-taking in southern Israel.

Speaking to journalists late Monday, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Luc Frieden said that “the situation on the ground has deteriorated considerably in recent months.”

“A movement is now emerging in Europe and around the world to demonstrate that the two-state solution is still relevant,” Frieden said.

“That is why the Luxembourg government intends to join those who recognize the State of Palestine at next week’s conference on the two-state solution.”

In July, Macron said France would soon recognize a Palestinian state. More than a dozen other Western countries have since said they will do the same.

Israeli ministers have lambasted the announcements as a “reward for terror” in the wake of the October 7 onslaught.

Around three-quarters of the 193 UN member states already recognize the Palestinian state proclaimed in 1988 by the exiled Palestinian leadership.

Amid the new push, the UN General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly endorsed a declaration outlining “tangible, time-bound and irreversible steps” toward a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians without the involvement of Hamas.

Israel and its ally the United States have blasted the statehood push, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying Monday that the recognition has “emboldened” Hamas, which still holds 48 hostages, of whom 20-22 are believed to be alive.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared last week that “there will be no Palestinian state,” as he signed an agreement to push ahead with the controversial E1 settlement expansion plan that will cut across West Bank land Palestinians seek for a state.

Hard-right voices in Israel have called on Jerusalem to formally annex the West Bank, which Israel captured from Jordan after the latter attacked Israel in the 1967 war. The territory is home to around three million Palestinians, as well as about 500,000 Israeli settlers.