Starmer spoke a day after talks in Scotland with U.S. President Donald Trump, who mentioned he did “not thoughts” if Britain recognised a Palestinian state, although Washington – Israel’s closest ally – has lengthy declined to take action.
Britain, if it acts, would grow to be the second Western energy on the U.N. Security Council to take action after France final week, reflecting Israel’s deepening isolation over its conduct in its battle towards Hamas in Gaza, the place a humanitarian catastrophe has set in and the Palestinian dying toll has risen above 60,000.
Starmer mentioned Britain would make the transfer except Israel took substantive steps to permit extra help to enter Gaza, made clear there shall be no annexation of the West Bank and dedicated to a long-term peace course of that delivers a “two-state resolution” – a Palestinian state co-existing in peace alongside Israel.
