Keir Starmer faces pushback after announcing UK will recognise state of Palestine unless Gaza crisis ends – UK politics live

Benjamin Netanyahu says announcement rewards ‘Hamas’s monstrous terrorism’ as Starmer says UK could recognise statehood in SeptemberHeidi Alexander said on Wednesday the decision to recognise a Palestinian state in September is about making sure it comes at the time of “maximum impact” and denied that it’s a “reward for Hamas”.The transport secretary told Times Radio that plans to recognise to Palestinian statehood are “not at all” about appeasing Hamas.Not at all. This isn’t about Hamas. This is about the Palestinian people. It’s been the longstanding position of my party and indeed this government when we came to power last year that we would recognise the state of Palestine at a point in time when it would have maximum impact.The moment to act is now. We know that the actions of the Israeli government over the last couple of months are actually making the prospects of that two-state solution, a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable and Palestinian, viable sovereign Palestinian state, is making that further and further away.We’ve seen, haven’t we, on our television, scenes that whole tracts of Gaza have been razed to the ground. There’s the effective annexation of the West Bank happening. Continue reading...

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