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Prime Min­is­ter Keir Starmer said Tues­day the U.K. will recog­nise a Pales­tin­ian state in Sep­tem­ber – un­less Is­rael agrees to a cease­fire in Gaza and takes steps to­ward long-term peace.

Starmer called min­is­ters to­geth­er for a rare sum­mer­time Cab­i­net meet­ing to dis­cuss the sit­u­a­tion in Gaza.

He told them that Britain will rec­og­nize a state of Pales­tine be­fore the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly, “un­less the Is­raeli gov­ern­ment takes sub­stan­tive steps to end the ap­palling sit­u­a­tion in Gaza, reach­es a cease­fire, makes clear there will be no an­nex­a­tion in the West Bank, and com­mits to a long-term peace process that de­liv­ers a two state so­lu­tion.”