The Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom has welcomed British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s resolution to acknowledge Palestine as a state, a transfer introduced simply days after French President Emmanuel Macron made an analogous declaration.
In an announcement dated Tuesday, July 30, 2025, Husam Zomlot mentioned the UK’s recognition represents a major and long-overdue step towards redressing a historic injustice and affirming the Palestinian folks’s inalienable proper to self-determination and sovereign statehood.
“We welcome the Prime Minister’s announcement that the UK will acknowledge the State of Palestine in September. This marks a major and overdue step towards redressing a historic injustice and affirming the Palestinian folks’s inalienable proper to self-determination and sovereign statehood,” the assertion learn partly.
UK Becomes Latest European Nation to Call for Recognition of Palestine as State
The Palestinian authorities additionally welcomed Starmer’s announcement of a renewed effort to ship lifesaving humanitarian support to Gaza, which it claims has been obstructed by Israel’s ongoing blockade.
The blockade, Palestinians allege, types a part of a 22-month-long marketing campaign of deliberate hunger.
Zomlot expressed appreciation for the UK’s intention to collaborate with Palestine and worldwide companions to attain a right away and everlasting ceasefire in Gaza and restore unity between the West Bank, together with East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
“As we have now persistently mentioned, we’re prepared. A viable plan is on the desk and enjoys broad worldwide assist. There should be no additional delay in its implementation, together with the pressing reconstruction of Gaza,” he added.
According to Zomlot, the UK’s recognition carries explicit historic and ethical significance.
It addresses injustices rooted within the colonial-era Balfour Declaration and many years of systematic denial of Palestinian rights.
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Palestinian Government Expresses Eagerness to Work with the UK
The Palestinian authorities additionally expressed eagerness to work intently with the UK authorities, Parliament, and the British folks to make sure this recognition is swiftly and absolutely translated into motion, beginning with formal recognition of the State of Palestine at once.
Zomlot pressured that recognition should be seen as a step towards upholding common ideas of justice and accountability, ending what Palestinians describe as illegal occupation, and paving the way in which for an impartial Palestinian state.
He additional famous that recognition isn’t a standalone answer and should be accompanied by the equal utility of worldwide legislation, starting with a right away finish to the conflict in Gaza, adopted by reconstruction and full accountability for alleged conflict crimes.
The Palestinian authorities’s response got here simply hours after Prime Minister Starmer introduced that the UK will acknowledge Palestine as a state on the upcoming United Nations assembly in September until Israel agrees to a ceasefire.
UK turns into the newest European nation to name for the popularity of Palestine as a state days after French President Emmanuel Macron made an analogous declaration.
