Britain announced on Tuesday it was prepared to recognise a Palestinian state in September unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the "appalling situation" in Gaza and meets other conditions.

Any British prime minister considering the supremely sensitive question of whether to recognise Palestine as a state will have to weigh America’s likely reaction.

Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, suggested Tuesday that France’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood would be similar to giving Nazi Germany a victory after World War II. Huckabee criticized French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent announcement to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations in the next two months,

The UN Conference on The Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution was held in New York behind closed doors on Tuesday.

The U.N. General Assembly is bringing high-level officials together to promote a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has rebuked France’s decision to move toward recognising the State of Palestine, warning that such symbolic gestures risk misleading the world into believing a solution exists when it does not.

France's decision to recognise Palestine comes amid European anger towards the ongoing war in Gaza and Israeli actions in the Palestinian territory.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the U.K. will recognize a Palestinian state in September – unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza and takes steps to long-term peace