July 29, 2025

President Donald Trump publicly broke with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer after Starmer said that Britain will recognize Palestine as a state unless Israel meets specific conditions related to its actions in the war-torn Gaza Strip.

The U.S. "is not in that camp," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.

Israel has been waging a war with Hamas in Gaza since the group carried out a terrorist attack on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023. In the nearly two years since, Israel has unleashed a devastating counterattack in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of people, many of whom were children.

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