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British FM Lammy calls for Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, along with two-state solution

 
British Foreign Minister David Lammy meets with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, 14 July 2024 (photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X)
British Foreign Minister David Lammy meets with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, 14 July 2024
(photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X)

Lammy also spoke about the Labour government’s opposition to Israeli West Bank settlement activity and its commitment to a reformed Palestinian Authority.

Newly installed British Foreign Minister David Lammy called for an immediate ceasefire and hostage deal along with a “pathway towards a two-state solution” during meetings he held Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa.

“Our message is clear,” he said in a post on X in which he included a photograph of himself shaking hands with Netanyahu and then again shaking hands with Mustafa in Ramallah.

In a statement issued upon his arrival, he said, “The death and destruction in Gaza is intolerable. The war must end now with an immediate ceasefire, complied with by both sides.”

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“The fighting has got to stop. The hostages still cruelly detained by Hamas terrorists need to be released immediately and aid must be allowed in to reach the people of Gaza without restrictions,” he said.

 Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa speaks during a joint press conference with the Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares, in Brussels, Belgium May 26, 2024.  (credit: REUTERS/Johanna Geron)
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa speaks during a joint press conference with the Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares, in Brussels, Belgium May 26, 2024. (credit: REUTERS/Johanna Geron)

“I am meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders to stress the United Kingdom’s ambition and commitment to play this full diplomatic role in securing a ceasefire deal and creating the space for a credible and irreversible pathway toward a two-state solution.”

Desires for a two-state solution

He also spoke about the Labour government’s opposition to Israeli West Bank settlement activity and its commitment to a reformed Palestinian Authority.

Central to a two-state resolution to the conflict, he said, is an “end to expanding illegal Israeli settlements and rising settler violence in the West Bank. Here, in what should be a crucial part of a Palestinian state, alongside Gaza and east Jerusalem, we need to see a reform and empowered Palestinian Authority,” he said.


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Lammy also reiterated that his party believes that unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood should take place at a critical point in a two-state peace process, rather than at its conclusion.

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