Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, raises the plaque bearing the new title: “Embassy of the State of Palestine.”

Husam Zomlot, Palestine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, waves to the audience during a ceremony in London to mark Britain’s recognition of a Palestinian state [Leon Neal/Getty]

Palestine’s Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot has spoken before a crowd in front of the Palestine Mission in central London to mark its transition to becoming Palestine’s embassy in the country.

“We are gathered today in front of the Palestinian Mission to the UK here in London to mark a historic moment,” said Zomlot. “In the same capital of the Balfour Declaration, after more than a century of ongoing denial, dispossession and erasure, the UK government has finally taken the long overdue step of recognising the state of Palestine.”

Holding up a plaque, he said, to cheers from the crowd: “Very soon, pending some legal work, some bureaucratic work … this plaque, which reads ‘The Embassy of the State of Palestine’ … will be placed right behind me on this building.”

He said the moment was “not only about Palestine, it is also about Britain and the British government’s solemn responsibility”.

“It is about ending the denial of the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to freedom and self-determination and it is an acknowledgement of a historic injustice,” he said. “Ladies and gentlemen, Palestine exists, it has always existed and it always will.”

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After being deprived of children for more than six years, the Daloul family was blessed with their daughter Nour. Today, Nour was killed in Israel’s relentless terror attacks on Gaza. Her father embraced her body as he grieved her loss.

Dozens of boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla are advancing towards Gaza to break the Israeli blockade that has lasted more than 18 years. It is also intended to provide relief to the people of Gaza who have endured Israeli genocide for two years.

The mission is not only to deliver humanitarian aid, it is to denounce an open wound before the eyes of the world.

Israeli terror attack targeted the Al-Shawa residential building, which houses the Palestinian Medical Relief Society in central Gaza City.

Plumes of smoke are seen following two Israeli terror attack on two buildings near the Al-Samer junction in central Gaza City.

Two siblings, Shadi and Silan, were brutally murdered yesterday along with two other family members in a horrific Israeli terror attack on the town of Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon.

A boy sits next to the body of a Palestinian killed in Israeli terror attacks, at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City [File: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]