The decision by Keir Starmer to recognise a Palestinian state has provoked anger from Israel’s government and families of British hostages held or killed by Hamas.

The Prime Minister said the “moment has now arrived” and insisted the move was the only way of achieving peace and a two-state solution in the Middle East.

But Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu accused the British government of rewarding terrorists and warned: “There will be no Palestinian state.”

The British government is braced for a negative response from Israel, The i Paper understands, including the prospect of further settlements in the West Bank.

Netanyahu, who is travelling to Washington for talks with Donald Trump, said his government intended to push ahead with Jewish settlement in the West Bank and he would

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