{"id":81997,"date":"2025-09-21T14:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/uk-canada-and-australia-announce-formal-recognition-of-palestinian-state-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:46:28","slug":"uk-canada-and-australia-announce-formal-recognition-of-palestinian-state-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/uk-canada-and-australia-announce-formal-recognition-of-palestinian-state-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"UK, Canada and Australia announce formal recognition of Palestinian state | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced that the UK now formally recognises a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, to revive the hope of <!--more--> peace and a two-state solution, I state clearly &#8211; as prime minister of this great country &#8211; that the United Kingdom formally recognises the state of Palestine,&#8221; he said in a video statement.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Canada became the first G7 nation to make the move, closely followed by Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer&#8217;s deputy, David Lammy, earlier defended the move &#8211; telling the BBC &#8220;now is the time to stand up for a two-state solution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has previously opposed countries recognising Palestinian statehood, saying it &#8220;rewards Hamas terror&#8221; and &#8220;hardens&#8221; the group&#8217;s &#8220;refusal to free hostages&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Palestine #Israel #UK #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced that the UK now formally recognises a Palestinian state. &#8220;Today, to revive the hope of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}