The United Kingdom warns Israel not to take revenge on Palestinian statehood

Foreign secretary Yvet Cooper says she has warned Israel not to annex parts of the west coast of revenge for the recognition of the United Kingdom as Palestinian statehood.

Cooper talked to the BBC before attending a Monday conference at the UN in New York, where France and other European states must make a similar message.

In what was a significant change in politics, Prime Minister Sir Kyar Starmer announced the UK recognition as the Palestinian state on Sunday, along with Canada, Australia and Portugal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the moves, saying they were giving a “huge award of terrorism.”

Asked by the BBC whether she was worried that Israel would accept this declaration as a pretext of annexing parts of the west coast, Cooper said he had allowed to understand her Israeli counterpart that he and his government should not do so.

She said: “It was clear that this decision we are making is the best way to respect Israel’s security as well as the security of the Palestinians.

“It is about protecting peace and justice and essential for the security of the Middle East, and we will continue to work with all in the whole region so that we can do it.”

Cooper said extremists from both sides strive to abandon any perspective for the decision of two countries, which the United Kingdom has a moral obligation to revive.

“The easy thing you have to do is just to move away and say well that everything is too difficult,” Cooper said. “We just think this is not right when we have seen such a devastation, such suffering.

“Just as we recognize Israel, the State of Israel … so we must recognize the rights of the Palestinians and in our own condition.”

She did not say when the Consulate General of the United Kingdom in Eastern Jerusalem would become a full embassy, ​​saying it would continue as a diplomatic process began with the Palestinian power.

The Foreign Secretary spoke in New York, where the UN General Assembly is convened this week.

Cooper will insist on the construction of an international consensus on the Middle East, the external officer said.

France will co -chair at a meeting with Saudi Arabia aimed at the path to a bilateral conflict decision after him promised to recognize the Palestinian statehood in JulyS Belgium is also expected to follow the French Declaration at the meeting.

Communicating Sunday, Sir Cayer said he wanted to “revive the hope of peace and bilateral decision.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replied, saying that the Palestinian statehood “will not happen.”

The United States joined him, describing this move as Hamas’s diplomatic gift after he attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

Sir Cayer stressed that this is not the case, since the conditions of recognition mean that Hamas cannot have “no future, there is no role in the government, there is no role in security.”

This announcement was voiced in a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which said the Foreign Secretary would use the UN meeting to “ensure that terrorists as Hamas do not have a role in the future of the Palestinian state.”

The prime minister added that the decision was instead of “a promise of the Palestinian and Israeli people that there may be a better future,” saying that “hunger and devastation (in gas) are extremely impatient.”

Sir Keyer, who has repeatedly said that Hamas could not play a role in the future Palestinian state government, said during a message that the United Kingdom had already foreseen and sanctioned Hamas and that he had directed the work of sanctioning additional Hamas figures in the coming weeks.

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

Speaking of the BBC breakfast, conservative deputy chairman Matt Vickers said the Prime Minister is rewarding Hamas.

“Hamas already said it was a victory for them and the evil things they did on October 7,” he said.

“This is not the way you play the game, this is not what you do if you want to get two state solutions. Everyone is devastated by what they see in Gaza, they are all devastated by what we saw on October 7. We have to work with the United States to make sure these hostages are home.”

Last week, the UN Investigated Committee said that Israel has performed a genocide in gasS

Within three pages, the International Association of Genocide Scientists (IAGS) presented Liat in actions taken by Israel throughout the 22-month war, which recognizes as a genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

About 65,000 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza in the almost two -year war.

The disturbed health experts also announced hunger in Gaza.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said the genocide report was based on “lies Hamas” and bad research, calling it “embarrassment to the legal profession.”

Netanyahu repeatedly denies that the hunger is being held in Gaza and said that where there is hunger, it is the fault of the agencies for help and Hamas.

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the UK’s decision, saying that it would help the Palestine State to live side by side with the State of Israel in security, peace and good neighborly.

Palestine is currently recognized as a country by about 75% since the 193 UN Member States, but there is no internationally agreed boundaries, the capital or an army -to make recognition to a large extent symbolically.

The bilateral decision refers to the creation of the Palestinian state on the West Coast and the Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem being its capital, as a whole along the lines existing before the Arab-Israeli War of 1967.

Due to the military occupation of Israel on the west coast, the Palestinian power created as a result of the peace agreements in the 1990s is not in complete control of its land or people. In Gaza, where Israel is also the occupation power, Hamas is the only ruler of 2007.

The United Kingdom ministers have highlighted the continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are illegal under international law, as a key factor in the decision to recognize Palestinian statehood.

Mohammed Jarar, Mayor on the West Coast of Jenin, told the BBC that “this Israeli government wants to annex the west coast” – but stressed that recognition is important as “confirming the fact that the Palestinian people have a state, even if it is subjected.”

Netanyahu repeated his intentions on Sunday, saying that “we have doubled the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria (the west coast) and will continue this path.”

The distant Minister Itar Ben Guir responded to the news, urging Israel to annex the West coast and dismantle the Palestinian power.