The United Kingdom warns Israel against taking revenge against pushing the Palestinian state

Foreign Minister Evit Cooper says that Israel has warned against annexing parts of the West Bank in response to the recognition of the Palestinian state.

Cooper was speaking to the BBC before attending a conference on Monday in the United Nations in New York, where France and other European countries are scheduled to issue a similar announcement.

In what was a major change in politics, Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer announced the United Kingdom’s recognition of a Palestinian state on Sunday, along with Canada, Australia and Portugal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the moves, saying it gives a “great reward for terrorism.”

In response to a question from the BBC whether it was anxious to Israel will take this declaration as an excuse to include parts of the West Bank, Cooper said it made it clear to its Israeli counterpart that he and his government should not do.

She said: “We were clear that this decision we made is about the best way to respect security for Israel as well as security for the Palestinians.

“It comes to the protection of peace, justice and security decisively for the Middle East and we will continue to work with every person all over the region so that we can do this.”

Cooper said that the extremists from both sides were seeking to abandon any possibility to resolve the Dorit, which the UK had a moral commitment to revive.

“The easy thing to do is just get away and say well everything is very difficult.” “We only think this is a mistake when we saw such destruction, such suffering.

“We also realize Israel, the state of Israel … Therefore, we must also realize the rights of the Palestinians in their own state as well.”

She did not say when the Consulate General in the United Kingdom in East Jerusalem would become a full embassy, ​​saying that it would continue as a diplomatic operation began with the Palestinian Authority.

The Foreign Minister was speaking in New York, where the United Nations General Assembly held this week.

The Foreign Ministry said that Cooper would press to build an international consensus on a peace framework in the Middle East.

France will participate in the chairmanship of the meeting alongside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which deals with the way to a two -state solution for the conflict, after that He pledged to recognize the Palestinian state in July. Belgium is also expected to follow the announcement of France at the meeting.

After announcing on Sunday, Sir Kiir said he wanted to “revive the hope of peace and the two -state solution.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by saying that the Palestinian state “will not happen.”

The United States joined him in describing this step as a diplomatic gift to Hamas after attacking Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

Sir Kiir stressed that this was not the case because the conditions for recognition means that Hamas cannot have “a future, no role in the government, and no role in security.”

This letter was reported in a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which said that the Foreign Minister will use the United Nations meeting “to ensure that violent terrorists such as Hamas have no role they play in the future of a Palestinian state.”

The Prime Minister added that the decision was instead “pledged to the Palestinian and Israeli people that there could be a better future,” saying that “hunger and destruction (in Gaza) is completely unbearable.”

Sir Kerr, who said repeatedly, said Hamas could not have a role in the future rule of a Palestinian state, during his announcement that the United Kingdom had already banned and sentenced Hamas and that he ordered to work to the punishment of more Hamas personalities in the coming weeks.

On Sunday, Hamas welcomed the recognition as “an important step to emphasize the right of our Palestinian people to their lands and their holy sites”, but said that it should be accompanied by “practical measures” that would lead to a “immediate end” of the war.

Speaking of BBC breakfast, Vice President of the Conservatives said that the Prime Minister was “rewarded Hamas.”

“Hamas has already said that this is a victory for them and the evil things they did on October 7,” he said.

“This is not the way the game plays, and this is not what you do if you want to get a solution from international.”

Sir Ed Davi, the leader of the liberal Democrats, told breakfast that this step was a “basic path” towards a two -state solution, but “this is only a first step.”

“We need to pressure the Netanyahu government to stop the murder, bring food to the people of Gaza, and also to remove the hostages.”

Last week, the United Nations Investigation Committee said Israel had committed the genocide in Gaza.

Through a three -page decision, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IGS) presented a set of measures taken by Israel during the 22 -month war, which is recognized as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

About 65,000 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza in a war for nearly two years.

Unacceptable health experts also announced a famine in Gaza City.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that the genocide report is based on “the enthusiasm of lies” and the weak research, describing it as “embarrassing for the legal profession.”

Netanyahu has repeatedly denied his hunger in Gaza and said that in the event of hunger, relief agencies and enthusiasm.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the UK decision, saying that he would help pave the way for “the state of Palestine to live alongside the state of Israel in security, peace and good neighborhood.”

Palestine has now been recognized as a country of about 75 % of the 193 United Nations member states, but it has no internationally agreed borders, capital or army – which makes recognition largely symbolic.

The solution consisting of the two countries indicates the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza’s tape, with East Jerusalem as its capital, on a large scale on the lines that existed before the Arab -Israeli war in 1967.

Because of Israel’s military occupation in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority, which was established in the wake of peace agreements in the 1990s, is not in full control over its lands or people. In Gaza, where Israel is also the occupied power, Hamas was the only ruler since 2007.

UK ministers highlighted the continuous expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which is considered illegal under international law, as a major factor in the decision to recognize the Palestinian state.

“This Israeli government wants to include the West Bank” – but he stressed that the recognition was important that “it confirms the fact that the Palestinian people possess a state, even if they are professions.”

Netanyahu repeated his intentions on Sunday, saying: “We have doubled the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and we will continue this path.”

The right -wing Israeli minister, Itamar bin Jafir, responded to the news by calling Israel to include the West Bank and dismantling the Palestinian Authority.