"Sir Keir Starmer is expected to confirm the move after concluding the situation has deteriorated since he urged Israel to change course over the summer. Portugal, Canada, Australia and France are also due to recognise Palestine today, joining around three quarters of the 193 UN member states who do so. Ireland made the move last year alongside Norway and Spain."
"Israeli strikes killed at least 34 people in Gaza City overnight, including children, said health officials on Sunday, as Israel presses ahead with its offensive in the famine-stricken city. The official death toll from the Israeli onslaught in Gaza is now around 65,000, mostly civilians, since the surprise Palestinian militant attack two years ago that killed more than 1,000 Israelis."
"Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, who will represent the UK at UNGA, said: "It's important to state that the recognition of a Palestinian state, it is a consequence of the serious expansion that we're seeing in the West Bank, the settler violence that we're seeing in the West Bank and the intention and indications that we're seeing to build, for example, the E1 development that would run a coach and horses through the possibility of a two-state solution.""
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to formally recognise a Palestinian state after concluding the situation has deteriorated since he urged Israel to change course over the summer. Portugal, Canada, Australia and France will recognise Palestine, joining about three quarters of UN member states; Ireland, Norway and Spain recognised it earlier. Israeli strikes killed at least 34 people in Gaza City overnight, part of an Israeli offensive that has resulted in about 65,000 deaths, mostly civilians. The UK government is alarmed by plans to accelerate Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which ministers fear will destroy prospects for a two-state solution. Britain continues to approve arms exports to Israel.
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