Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his country would act unless there was a truce, citing the “intolerable” humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced Tuesday that the U.K. will recognise Palestine as a state in the United Nations meeting in September, unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza and a path toward a permanent,

Arab countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt joined calls Tuesday for Hamas to disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Palestinian territory.Seventeen countries plus the European Union and Arab League threw their weight behind a seven-page text agreed at a United Nations conference on reviving the two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians.

The United Kingdom plans to recognize a Palestinian state in September unless Israel takes steps to resolve the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and stop the annexation of the West Bank.

Israel ended a truce in Gaza in March, hoping to break Hamas. The move has heightened suffering for Palestinians but achieved few, if any, Israeli goals.

Both Israel and Hamas are facing pressure at home and abroad to reach a deal following almost two years of war, with the humanitarian situation inside Gaza deteriorating.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee discusses President Donald Trump's plan to address starvation in Gaza on 'America's Newsroom.'