United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the U.K. is considering recognizing a Palestinian state at the United Nations.
The former prime minister, who is trying to promote a plan to end the war in Gaza, said such a move could bring "irreversible progress to a two-state solution."
"We should be starting to set out what a Palestinian state would look like — what it would comprise, how it would work," he told the Conservative Middle East Council in the House of Commons Monday night, according to Politico.
"As that happens, we, with allies, will look at the issue of recognizing a Palestinian state, including at the United Nations," he added. "This could be one of the things that helps to make this process irreversible."
The Guardian reported that Cameron made his remarks ahead of his fourth visit to the Middle East this week, where he is attempting to sell a five-point peace plan to extinguish the latest hostilities between Israel and Hamas.
According to Politico, the five points of Cameron's plan include a campaign for a new international aid package for Gaza, the creation of a new Palestinian government for Gaza and the West Bank, stripping Hamas of its capabilities to attack Israel, freeing the Hamas-held hostages, and expelling "key Hamas leaders" from the Gaza Strip.
The U.K. is among those that continue to push a two-state paradigm as the only sustainable solution to the nearly four-month-old conflict.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said such a move "would endanger the state of Israel" and has called for "full Israeli security control over the entire area in the west of Jordan." The Israeli leader criticized the efforts from allies to win his support for the proposal as an "attempt to coerce us."
The foreign secretary had pushed Netanyahu on the possibility of peace through a two-state solution during a meeting last week in Jerusalem, according to The Guardian.
The U.K. government previously said that it will "recognize a Palestinian state at a time when it best serves the objective of peace," and The Guardian reported that the prime minister told parliament last week that Britain would consider such a move "when the time is right."
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