London (AP) – UK recognizes Palestinian state In September, unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire Gazaallowing the UN to bring aid and other measures will be taken to ensure long-term peace, Prime Minister Kiel Starmer said Tuesday.
Priorities that puts domestic pressure on issues Gaza Hunger Scene It terrified many Brits and convened an unusual summer cabinet meeting to discuss the situation there. He came after he discussed the crisis with President Donald Trump at a meeting in Scotland on Monday.
Trump told reporters Monday that he doesn’t care about wise men who “take positions” against the Palestinian state. On his flight back to the US on Tuesday, Trump said he had never discussed the UK where the two could potentially recognize the Palestinian state.
“We haven’t seen that,” Trump said.
Israel refuses to announce
The priority was that the UK would recognize Palestine before the UN General Assembly. A scary situation In Gaza, we agree to a ceasefire, commit to long-term, sustainable peace and revive the prospects of solutions for the two states.
“And this includes allowing the United Nations to resume supply of aid, and there is no annexation. West BankHe said.
It appears very unlikely that Israeli government Prime Minister Netanyahu will fail to meet the criteria and will be turned down at the heart of the most cumbersome issue in the conflict. Netanyahu rejects the two-state solution on both nationalism and security grounds.
Israeli Foreign Ministry said it had rejected the UK’s statement.
“Changes in the current position of the UK government The movement of France And internal political pressure constitutes rewards against Hamas and undermine the framework of efforts and hostage releases to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza,” the ministry said in X.
Priority also reiterated the UK’s demands to release all hostages held by Hamas, agree to a ceasefire, disarm and “accept not to join the Gaza government.”
Starmer said in a TV statement that his government would evaluate in September before assessing “to what extent parties meet these measures.”
British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer will make a statement on Tuesday, July 29th, 2025, on the day the cabinet was recalled to discuss the situation in Gaza, London.
The UK has long supported the idea of an independent Palestinian state that exists with Israel, but it says recognition should come as part of the two negotiated state solution to the conflict.
However, the UK said it was willing to take a step forward as “the idea of a solution for the two states is declining and today is farther away than it has been for many years.” He said that despite the set of conditions he established, the UK believes that “the state is an inviolable right of the Palestinians.”
Increased pressure on Israel
Since then, pressure to have officially recognized Palestinian states French President Emmanuel Macron It announced that his country will become the first major Western power Recognize the Palestinian state September.
Like France, the UK’s perception is largely symbolic; Part of a broader European and global shift It could increase diplomatic pressure on Israel to end the conflict.
Over 140 countries recognize the Palestinian state, including 12 Europeans. Macron’s announcement came last week, and France took that step forward as the first group of seven countries and the largest group in Europe.
Europe is widely sour in Israel surrounding Gaza. Countries, including Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands, are actively pushing Israel to provide more aid and halt military operations.
Over 250 of the 650 House lawmakers have signed a letter urging the British government to recognize the Palestinian state.
Britain, which was then Palestine, has a specific historical role in favour of the establishment of Jewish homelands as a former governing force of being the author of the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
Foreign Secretary David Lamy said the UK has a “special burden of liability.”
“Our support for Israel, our right to exist, and our people’s security are unshakable,” Rammy told a meeting at the United Nations in New York. “But the Balfour Declaration has a strict promise that nothing will be done and cannot harm the civil and religious rights of the Palestinian people. And colleagues, this is not supported and historical injustice continues to unfold.”
France welcomed the UK’s announcement.
“The UK has joined the momentum created by France for the recognition of the Palestinian state,” Frenchman Jean Noel Barro wrote on X.
Omar Awadara, assistant to the Foreign Minister of Palestinian Authority, welcomed the announcement of its ancestors, saying that the UK has a historic responsibility to recognize the Palestinian state and that if it continues in September, it will “fix historical injustice.” Palestinian authorities have limited autonomy in their occupied West Bank pockets.
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Authors of the Associated Press in Paris Angela Charlton, Chris Megarian, Ibrahim Hasboon, Fernshua Mili and Edith Lederer contributed to this story.
