We'll be closing up this blog now, but to summarise: 

• British PM's Keir Starmer says the UK will recognise Palestine as a state as early as September, unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire.

• Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Starmer had rewarded "Hamas'[s] monstrous terrorism and punishes its victims".

• Two Australian activists who had been detained by Israeli authorities have now been deported from Israel.

• Australia has joined a new joint statement of 15 foreign ministers, including France, Canada and New Zealand on Gaza.

You can take a look back at all the developments below, or download the ABC News app and subscribe to our range of news alerts for the latest updates.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been gradually ramping up his criticisms of Israel — and condemnation of the Netanyahu government's actions in Gaza — in the last couple of weeks.

This morning, by jointly signing a statement with other countries ahead of the UN General Assembly in September, his government has shifted ground also on the question of recognition of the State of Palestine. Once again, Australia has opted to move as part of a group of nations in its public position on Gaza, rather than acting unilaterally.

At his press conference just now, he has resisted attempts to put a timeline on when Australia might follow France and the UK — as well as around 140 other countries — in moving to recognise Palestine, insisting it is not about a timeline but about the circumstances 'where recognition will advance the objective of a two state solution'.

The significance of the statement by the foreign ministers of Andorra, Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia and Spain lies in its context.

France became the first major country to signal it would recognise Palestine at the UN General Assembly, followed by the UK's apparently conditional statement that it would also do this.

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has tried to make the pressure on Israel implicit in the move more explicit by suggesting that the UK might not proceed if Israel was to meet various conditions — including agreeing to a ceasefire and taking "substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza".

But given Israeli intransigence, the UK must have made this statement on the presumption that the likelihood of Israel meeting all the conditions is pretty low.

Against this backdrop, the statement by other nations, including Australia, reiterating their "unwavering commitment to the vision of the two-state solution", specifically ahead of the UNGA, is fairly pointed.

The 15 foreign ministers say their countries have "already recognized, have expressed or express the willingness or the positive consideration of our countries to recognize the State of Palestine, as an essential step towards the two-State solution, and invite all countries that have not done so to join this call".

In other words, they aren't yet declaring they will back a push for Palestinian statehood. But Israel has been put on notice at a time when two major countries have signalled their intent that others may join them. And in making the statement, they are implicitly backing the actions of France and the UK.

Significantly, the PM emphasised a couple of times at his press conference the reference in the statement to "the commitments made by the President of the Palestinian Authority on June 10th".

These commitments by Mahmoud Abbas condemned the October 7 terrorist attacks, and notably called for the liberation of hostages and disarmament of Hamas. It also called for "elections within a year to trigger generational renewal and accepts the principle of a demilitarized Palestinian State".

Resisting the renewed push for Palestinian statehood can be rationalised because the question of who would run Palestine is a live one: Hamas as a terrorist organisation is not an option that any Western nation is prepared to accept; but the Palestinian Authority also faces problems of both external and internal legitimacy.

But both the aggressive push to annex large areas of the West Bank and now Gaza, and the utter physical devastation of the Gaza Strip, also raise the question of what will be left to form the basis of any future Palestinian state if the world cannot force the issue soon.

Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley are past convenors of the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine group, having joined it — or in Albanese's case, actively co-founded it — when they were backbenchers, more than two decades ago.

Both have expressly supported the recognition of Palestinian statehood.

Here's how the needle has shifted for both leaders over time. 

Analysis by Annabel Crabb below:

Thanks for the question Jet!

The recognition of a Palestinian state is a largely symbolic move that shows support for Palestinian self-determination, but it’s unlikely to change anything on the ground at this point.

Recognising Palestine would signal to the world that the UK was showing a strengthened moral commitment towards the rights of Palestinians, and it could also open the door for further policy changes on the issue.

It would add further legitimacy and political backing to an eventual two-state solution and put pressure on other countries to follow suit in recognising a Palestinian state. 

The move would also likely infuriate Israel, which continues to advocate against the position, and it would be seen within Israeli political circles as a rebuke of Israel’s current actions.

About 140 of the 193 United Nations member states already recognise Palestine as a state, including China, India, Spain, Ireland and Norway.

But no G7 country had taken that position until last week when France announced its intention to recognise Palestine later this year.  

Anthony Albanese was in contact with Keir Starmer overnight after the UK prime minister declared his nation would recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel took significant steps to end the war in Gaza.

The prime minister told reporters he expected to have further discussions with Starmer in the coming days.

Albanese had been asked if the government is looking at a specific timeframe to recognise a Palestinian state.

He says he's not looking at a timeline per se, but the circumstances where "recognition will advance the objective of the creation of two states".

"I've said for a long time, my entire political life, I said I support two states, the right of Israel to exist within secure borders and the right of Palestinians to have their legitimate aspirations for their own state realised," he says.

"That is my objective. Not making a statement, not winning a political point, but achieving that."

As we bring you the political fallout from the UK's announcement, it's also worth sharing the latest photos from Gaza. 

In the north, in Beit Lahia, huge crowds have been seen inundating aid trucks carrying in supplies. 

Labor frontbencher Anika Wells says recognition of Palestinian statehood is a "question of when, not if". 

"What is happening in Gaza has gone beyond the world's worst fears," she told ABC's News Breakfast. 

"It is now a question of when, not if, a two-state solution happens.

"We are working with like-minded parties to ensure that happens as soon as possible."

Wells was asked whether that meant Australian recognition of Palestinian statehood could happen "pretty soon".

"It is a question of when not if," she said. 

"There is things to work through.

"We need Hamas to release the hostages and we need to secure aid as quickly as possible. Everybody is working on that. Labor has long advocated for a two-state solution."

Australia has joined a new joint statement of 15 foreign ministers, including France, Canada and New Zealand on Gaza. 

The statement notes that ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in September:

"Have already recognized, have expressed or express the willingness or the positive consideration of our countries to recognize the State of Palestine, as an essential step towards the two-State solution, and invite all countries that have not done so to join this call;

"Urge countries who have not done so yet to establish normal relations with Israel, and to express their willingness to enter into discussions on the regional integration of the State of Israel;

"Express our determination to work on an architecture for the 'day after' in Gaza which guarantees the reconstruction of Gaza, the disarmament of Hamas and its exclusion from the Palestinian governance."

It also condemned the October 7 attacks, called for an immediate ceasefire, the release of the hostages held by Hamas, and that humanitarian access be ensured. 

Here in the US, there aren't many members of Congress who have accused Israel of genocide — even as more and more rights groups and experts level the charge.

That's in part because Israel's most vocal critics in Congress have been targeted by well-funded campaigns to unseat them, bankrolled by lobby groups linked to the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

But now, the accusation is coming from a somewhat unlikely corner of Congress, as one of the most prominent hard-right politicians in Washington speaks out. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene is believed to be the first Republican in Congress to say a genocide is underway.

In a post on X, she said:

"It's the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct. 7 in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza."

Her post was in response to another Republican, Randy Fine, who had described images of starving children in Gaza as "Muslim terror propaganda".

Israel is fighting the charge in a case, brought by South Africa, in the International Court of Justice.

I've just spoken with the daughter of Robert Martin, the Australian activist from the Handala who was deported from Israel overnight.

His daughter, Sarah Martin, said she was able to speak with her father for the first time in days and that he is in hospital in Jordan, receiving medial treatment.

"He sounds pretty rough but is looking forward to coming home," she said.

"They are severely dehydrated and on drips. His arthritis is really bad so he is on extra pain medication — he said they [Israel] didn't let him have his medication in there.

"They said the conditions [in jail] were absolutely horrific and worse than they expected. You could literally see the bedbugs everywhere.

"He said the IDF were extremely intimidating and very rough with them, with multiple strip searches."

The ABC has approached Israeli authorities about the claims but is yet to receive a response.