(21 Sep 2025)
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Ramallah, West Bank – 21 September 2025
1. Wide of Ahmed Al-Deek, political adviser to the Palestinian Foreign Ministry at his office
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Al-Deek, political adviser to the Palestinian Foreign Ministry:
“We welcome this recognition by the friendly United Kingdom, and we consider it a remarkable historic day and a victory for the Palestinian people and their suffering, and at the same time a victory for the United Kingdom, its king, government, and people, as it is the beginning of correcting the historical injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people. In the name of the State of Palestine, we express our readiness, in light of this recognition, to build deeper, stronger, and broader relations at the bilateral level with the United Kingdom."
3. Wide of flags
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Al-Deek, political adviser to the Palestinian Foreign Ministry:
"For us, this is a victory for Palestinian rights and a recognition of the just and legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people. These recognitions are fully consistent with international law and international legitimacy resolutions, and they confirm that the world has chosen to achieve peace in accordance with international law and not based on tanks, aircraft, and bombing. Unfortunately, the occupying state continues to commit more crimes against the Palestinian people, and therefore we deal with these recognitions from the perspective of the necessity of translating them with the aim of achieving an immediate halt to the crimes of genocide, displacement, and annexation, and launching an irreversible political process to implement the principle of the two-state solution."
5. Various exteriors of foreign ministry offices
STORYLINE:
Palestinian officials have welcomed the UK’s formal decision to recognize a Palestinian state on Sunday despite vociferous opposition from the US and Israel.
“We consider it a remarkable historic day and a victory for the Palestinian people and their suffering, and at the same time a victory for the United Kingdom, its king, government, and people,” said Ahmed Al-Deek, the political adviser to the Palestinian Foreign Ministry.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed the decision on Sunday, following those from Canada and Australia, in what appears to be a coordinated initiative from the Commonwealth nations.
On Sunday, Starmer said the move is intended to promote lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Though the move is largely symbolic, it is a historic moment as the UK arguably laid the groundwork for the creation of the Israeli state when it was in control of what was then known as Palestine in 1917.
The announcement was widely anticipated after Starmer said in July that the U.K. would recognize a Palestinian state unless Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza, allowed the UN to bring in aid and took other steps toward long-term peace.
The UK is not alone in recognizing a Palestinian state.
More than 140 countries have already taken that step and more are expected to do so at the UN General Assembly this week, including France.
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