Palestinian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Mustafa called on Britain on Tuesday to recognize the State of Palestine to "protect the two-state solution," and spoke of government plans for early recovery once the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip stops.

Mustafa's remarks came during his meeting in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank with British Development Minister Anneliese Dodds, according to a statement issued by the Palestinian Prime Minister's Office, a copy of which was received by Anadolu Agency.

Mustafa said, "The government has put in place plans for early recovery, reconstruction and intensification of work in the Gaza Strip immediately after the aggression stops."

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been waging a "genocidal" war on Gaza, resulting in about 150,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.

Mustafa explained that recovery will be achieved “through restoring basic services, providing emergency relief, unifying institutions, empowering the private sector, providing temporary housing, and leading to comprehensive reconstruction.”

Israel has turned Gaza into the world's largest prison, besieging it for the 18th year, and the war of extermination has forced about two million of its citizens, numbering about 2.3 million Palestinians, to flee in tragic conditions with a deliberate severe shortage of food, water and medicine.

Mustafa renewed the call for "serious and effective international pressure to stop the aggression on the Gaza Strip, which is facing catastrophic and difficult conditions, as a result of the closure of most of the crossings with the Strip and the disruption of the entry of aid, and the disruption of most of the basic health, water, sanitation and electricity services."

Israel continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on November 21 against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.

It also defies the UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate end to the war, and the International Court of Justice's orders to take measures to prevent genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Mustafa expressed his rejection of "all the occupation's plans and measures to reoccupy the Gaza Strip, divide it, and establish buffer zones."

He stressed the "necessity of implementing UN Security Council Resolution (No.) 2735 (issued last June) to stop the aggression and secure the entry and arrival of aid to our people immediately and urgently."

He called on Britain to recognize the State of Palestine, justifying this by the need to "protect the two-state solution (Palestine and Israel) on the path to ending the occupation and embodying the establishment of an independent Palestinian state."

Last May, Spain, Norway and Ireland announced their official recognition of the State of Palestine, followed by Slovenia and Armenia the following month, bringing the number of countries recognizing Palestine to 149 out of 193 UN member states.

Since November 2012, Palestine has enjoyed the status of a “non-member observer state” in the United Nations, and the United States’ use of veto power in the UN Security Council prevents it from obtaining “full membership.”

For her part, the British Minister expressed her "rejection of restrictions on the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, the necessity of reaching a ceasefire, providing all emergency needs and aid to the residents of the Strip, and rejecting the occupation's measures in the West Bank and settler violence," according to the statement.

She stressed "the continuation of British support and assistance to the Palestinian government in implementing the institutional reform programme."

In parallel with the war of extermination on Gaza, the Israeli army expanded its operations and the settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, which resulted in a total of 803 Palestinians killed and about 6,450 injured, according to official Palestinian data.

For decades, Israel has occupied lands in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, and rejects the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.