LONDON (TNS) — The United Kingdom will recognize the state of Palestine in September unless Israel takes "substantive steps" to end the "appalling situation in Gaza," British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday.

The prime minister recalled his senior team of ministers from their recess to discuss the situation in Gaza, where the population is facing a mounting famine, according to warnings from the United Nations.

A readout of the Cabinet meeting issued by Downing Street said Starmer told ministers "now was the right time to move this position" on the two-state solution.

The read out continued: "He said that because of the increasingly intolerable situation in Gaza and the diminishing prospect of a peace process towards a two-state solution, now was the right time to move this po

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