Keir Starmer is set to formally announce the UK’s recognition of a Palestinian state today.

Britain will then be joining France , Canada and Australia who will all acknowledge the State of Palestine officially at the United Nations’ General Assembly on Monday.

The state encompasses two separate territories, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, all of which are currently known as the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

It comes after Israel failed to meet the conditions the UK set out – taking “substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza”, reaching a ceasefire, ending the annexation in the West Bank and committing to a long-term two-state solution – all of which Starmer said would lead him to drop his recognition plan plan.

Instead, Isra

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