UK recognizes Palestinian state if Israel does not meet the criteria: PM-state
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told the cabinet on Tuesday that the UK will recognize the Palestinian state in September unless the Israeli government takes substantial steps to end the “shocking situation”.
“He said that unless the Israeli government takes substantial steps to end the shocking situation in Gaza, the UK will recognize the situation in Palestine by September (United Nations General Assembly) and unless the ceasefire is reached, it will make clear that there is no annexation in the West Bank and promise a long-term peace process for two-state solutions,” the statement said. ”
“He reiterated that there is no equivalent between Israel and Hamas, and our demands for Hamas remain, they must release all hostages, sign a ceasefire, accept that they will not play any role in the Gaza government and disarm.”
Starmer recalled the cabinet during the summer break on Tuesday, discussing the newly proposed peace plan with other European leaders and how to provide more humanitarian aid to Gaza.
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The continuous British government said they would formally recognize the Palestinian state when the time is right without setting a timetable or specifying the necessary conditions.
As Gaza warns people are facing hunger, an increasing number of MPs from the Stemmer Labor Party demanded that he acknowledge that the Palestinian state put pressure on Israel.
“The Worst Situation of Famine”
“The worst of famine is currently standing out in the Gaza Strip,” the Food Crisis Authority, the leading international food crisis, said in a new alert on Tuesday.
The alert still has no formal famine statement, following the image of a recession in Gaza’s recession children and reported dozens of reports of hunger-related deaths after nearly 22 months of war. International pressure has led Israel to announce measures over the weekend, including a daily humanitarian moratorium on Gaza and part of the gas water. The United Nations and Palestinians on the ground have little change, and the desperate crowds continue to overwhelm the trucks before reaching their destination.
The Integrated Food Security Stage Classification or IPC said Gaza has been hovering on the brink of famine for two years, but recent developments have “greatly worsened” the situation, including Israel’s “increasingly strict lockdown.”
There is rarely a formal declaration of famine that requires the lack of data on access to Gaza and internal liquidity. The IPC has declared only a few famines – in 2011 in Somalia, in 2017 and in South Sudan in 2020, and in part of the western Darfur region of Sudan last year.
But independent experts say they don’t need a formal declaration to know what they see in Gaza.
“Just as a family physician can often diagnose patients she is familiar with based on visible symptoms without having to send the samples to the lab and wait for results, we can also explain the symptoms of Gaza. This is famine,” Alex de Waal, author of “Popular Hunger: The History and Future of Famine,” and executive director of World Peace Foundation, and told World Peace Foundation.
–Report by William James, written by Muvija M; edited by Andrew Macaskill
