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=== Bangladesh ===
{{Main|Bangladesh–Israel relations}}
Both the Israeli government and general public supported the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]. After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, Israel offered to recognise the new born country in as early as 1972 but Bangladesh immediately rejected the offer.<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 March 2023 |title='Abraham Accords bring opportunities for Israel-Bangladesh cooperation' |work=[[Dhaka Tribune]] |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/282348/abraham-accords-bring-opportunities-for |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103085934/https://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/282348/abraham-accords-bring-opportunities-for |archive-date=3 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="Grover2000">{{cite book|author=Verinder Grover|title=Bangladesh: Government and Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R1uTvbI84HIC&pg=PA674|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Deep & Deep Publications|isbn=978-81-7100-928-2|page=674}}</ref>

Bangladesh does not recognize Israel as legitimate and officially forbids its citizens to travel to Israel by putting 'Valid for travel to all countries except Israel' on Bangladeshi passports. Bangladesh supports a sovereign Palestinian state and an end to Israel's "illegal occupation of Palestine".<ref name=mofabd>{{cite web|title=Statement by Her Excellency Ms. Dipu Moni, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh at the Ministerial Segment of the XV Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 14 July 2009 |url=http://www.mofa.gov.bd/Statement/PRDetails.php?PRid=20 |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224114515/http://www.mofa.gov.bd/Statement/PRDetails.php?PRid=20 |archive-date=24 December 2013}}</ref>