{"id":13668,"date":"2025-07-24T05:49:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=13668"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:49:58","slug":"sadiq-khan-calls-on-uk-government-to-recognize-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/07\/24\/sadiq-khan-calls-on-uk-government-to-recognize-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadiq Khan calls on UK government to recognize Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has recently urged the UK government to promptly recognize Palestine as an independent state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guardian reported on Wednesday night that Khan&#8217;s request comes amid a growing chorus of calls from three UK cabinet ministers and at least 60 Labour Party MPs advocating for the same recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The London mayor emphasized the urgent need for humanitarian assistance as civilians are suffering and dying in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that the UK government and the international community should exert pressure on Israel to halt the &#8220;meaningless killings.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan warned that if no Palestinians remain, there will be no viable solution to the &#8220;two-state solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports indicate that David Lammy, the UK Foreign Secretary, has recently described the actions of the Israeli military in Gaza as &#8220;horrific&#8221; and has called for an end to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes as approximately 1,000 Palestinian civilians have reportedly died due to severe hunger and famine in Gaza&nbsp;in&nbsp;recent&nbsp;days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has recently urged the UK government to promptly recognize Palestine as an independent state. The Guardian reported on Wednesday night that Khan&#8217;s request comes amid a growing chorus of calls from three UK cabinet ministers and at least 60 Labour Party MPs advocating for the same recognition. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13670,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions\/13670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}