Starmer set to announce UK recognition of Palestinian state

Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce the recognition of the Palestinian state in the afternoon of England’s Sunday afternoon.

In July, the Prime Minister said he would change the position of the UK unless he meets various conditions, including accepting a ceasefire in Israel’s Gaza Strip and committing a long -term peace process that leads to a Palestinian state with Israel.

The Israeli leadership has eliminated this since the beginning of the war that Hamas died and 251 hostage after Hamas’s attack in Southern Israel on 7 October 2023.

The Prime Minister’s movement received violent criticism from the Israeli government, families of hostages held in Gaza and some conservatives.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that a Palestinian state was “rewarding terror”.

The decision to recognize a Palestinian state represents a major change in British foreign policy after saying that recognition should come in a maximum impact period, a part of a peace process and the maximum influence.

However, ministers argue that there is a moral responsibility to act to keep their hopes of long -term peace alive.

Israel -Let it be a long -term solution to the palestinian conflict, drowned in Gaza to provide a ceasefire. Israel recently led to international anger A HAMAS carried out an air strike to the negotiation team In Qatar.

Government sources, the situation in the last few weeks in the last few weeks, said significantly worsening. They showed images of hunger and violence in Gaza, which Sir Keir previously described as “unbearable”.

The last place operation in Israel’s city of Gaza, He forced hundreds of thousands of people to escape hundreds of thousands of people, described as “disaster” by the UN official.

According to the figures of the Ministry of Health ruled by Hamas, the most recent Israeli attack in the two -year war, which sees that most of the population of Palestinian territory has been displaced, its infrastructure has been destroyed and at least 65,208 people were killed.

At the beginning of this week, a The United Nations Investigation Commission concluded that Israel has made genocide Against the Palestinians in Gaza, which Israel condemned as “distorted and fake”.

The ministers also emphasized the continuous expansion of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which was illegally illegal within the scope of international law, as a key factor in the decision to recognize the Palestinian state.

When the recognition was proposed, David Lammy, the Secretary of the Foreign Affairs, showed the controversial E1 reconciliation project, as well as violence from the Israeli settlers in the West Bank, as well as the controversial E1 reconciliation project.

When Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestinian Authority, visited Sir Keir at the beginning of this month, Britain welcomed the promise of recognition, and Downing Street acknowledged that both leaders should play no role in Palestine’s future governance.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said he wanted to see a two -state solution in the Middle East.

However, he wrote in Telegraph at the weekend: “It is clear, and the United States announced that the recognition of a Palestinian state would be an award for terrorism,” the United States is currently and without release of hostages. “

Meanwhile, in a letter to Sir Keir on Saturday, some of the hostages taken by Hamas called the family members and the prime minister 20, which is still alive, not to step up until the age of 48 in Gaza.

The announcement of the future recognition was “significant complex efforts to bring our loved ones home.” “Hamas celebrated England’s decision as a victory and made a cease -fire agreement.”

Government sources, ministers in the coming weeks will determine the next steps for Hamas sanction, he said.

During a state visit to the UK this week, US President Donald Trump said he did not participate in recognition.

Sir Keir set the deadline for the UN General Assembly meeting, This week, Israel’s “taking important steps to end the terrible situation in Gaza, cease -fire and long -term, sustainable peace, to revive the possibility of a two -state solution”.

In July, he said: “This solution is now under threat, the moment of this movement.”

Some other country including Portugal, FranceCanada and Australia Spain, Ireland and Norway said that they would recognize the Palestinian state while taking steps last year.

Palestine is currently recognized by about 75% of the UN’s 193 member states, but there is no international agreed boundaries, no capital and army – recognition is largely symbolic.

The two -state solution refers to the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and is the capital of East Jerusalem. Israel is currently invading both the West Bank and Gaza, that is, the Palestinian authority is not under full control of its territory or its people.

Realizing a Palestinian state has long been supported by many people in the Labor Party. The Prime Minister is under pressure to take a harder attitude especially on Israel, one of the deputies on the left of his party.

Shortly before he gave his speech in July, more than half of the Labor Party MPs signed a letter that asked the government to recognize a Palestinian state immediately.

However, the critics questioned why the government put conditions in Israel, not Hamas.

England’s chief rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis called the government to pause the decision.

“The intended recognition is not dependent on a functioning or democratic Palestinian government and even the most basic commitment to a peaceful future,” he said.

“Surprisingly, 48 hostages under captivity do not even depend on the release of the hostage.”

Government sources insisted on Hamas’s release of hostages and admitting that the ceasefire has not changed.

However, officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs argued that the state is the right of the Palestinian people and that the government could not be dependent on Hamas, which he thought of the terrorist organization.