A day after the UK — along with Australia, Canada, and Portugal — confirmed that it was formally recognising a Palestinian state, the Palestinian flag was raised outside the premises of the newly-recognised Palestine’s embassy to the UK in London on Monday (September 22).

The flag-raising ceremony followed a speech by Palestine’s Ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, who called on people to remember “that this recognition comes at a time of unimaginable pain and suffering as a genocide is being waged against us — a genocide that is still being denied and allowed to continue with impunity”.

France, which, like the UK, is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, will pledge to recognize a Palestinian state at this week’s UN General Assembly. More countries are expected t

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