International police agency Interpol voted in Beijing on Wednesday in favor of including the "State of Palestine" as a member, the agency announced on Twitter. Besides Palestine, Solomon Islands have also been approved as a new member state after the vote. The agency hasn't disclosed how many member states supported Palestine's membership bid.
In 2011, UNESCO accepted Palestine as a full member state, despite the country not being a member of the United Nations. In 2012, the State of Palestine was granted a non-member observer state status in the UN.
Palestine has been under Israeli occupation since 1967 and has called for a two-state solution to the Middle Eastern crisis and the restoration of the 1967 borders.
