The UK should immediately recognise the state of Palestine, a majority of MPs on the Commons foreign affairs committee have said.
It comes as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faces fresh calls from within Labour's ranks to make the move, amid warnings of mass starvation in Gaza, and after France indicated it would be doing so within months.
In a new report, the Labour and Lib Dem MPs on the select committee argue that statehood is an "inalienable right" that should "not be made conditional".
But their two Tory colleagues said a state of Palestine should only be recognised as part of a long-term political solution to the conflict in the Middle East, echoing the Labour government's position.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday evening that his country would officially recognise a Palestinian state at a UN meeting in September.
