A history of the push for Palestinian statehood
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With Spain saying it is determined to recognise Palestine as an independent state by July, and lobbying the rest of the EU to do the same, France 24 takes a look back at the history of efforts to establish Palestinian statehood, starting in in 1947 when the UN voted a partition plan which would have created two states: Israel and Palestine.