Britain should recognise a Palestinian state, fly injured Gaza children to the UK for treatment and help dismantle an Israel-backed aid system blamed for hundreds of civilian deaths, MPs say today in a bombshell report.
In a sweeping set of recommendations, the Foreign Affairs Committee has called on the Government to take urgent action as it declared the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the West Bank 'intolerable'.
The committee - made up of seven Labour members, two Liberal Democrats and two Tories - is ramping up pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to recognise Palestine as a state, warning that waiting for the 'perfect time' has become an excuse for inaction.
It said: 'The UK...should now recognise the state of Palestine while there is still a state to recognise. An inalienable right should not be made conditional.
'The Government cannot continue to wait for the perfect time because experience shows that there will never be a perfect time, and in hindsight it is possible to see times when it should have occurred.'
