The British House of Commons is scheduled to debate and vote Monday on a controversial backbench motion which calls for the government to recognise a Palestinian state.

Israel beat Cyprus 2-1 in the Euro 2016 soccer qualifying campaign Friday night ahead of the blue-and-white’s second qualifier match in Andorra on Monday.

Pro-Israel groups in the UK have collected around 2,000 signatures on a petition urging members of the House of Commons to vote against a motion on Palestinian statehood in the British Parliament, the Jewish Chronicle reported.

CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewish organizations said the Jewish community of France was ‘’shocked’’ by the vote of the city of Lille to ‘’temporary freeze” a twinning with the Israeli city of Safed.

A Koweiti preacher who has reportedly made anti-Semitic statements and called for Israel’s eradication is scheduled to be one the speakers at a Muslim Fair in Brussels next month.

The decision to recognize a state of Palestine was one of dozens of foreign policy guidelines for the new Swedish government and Israel was not singled out, Swedish new Prime Minister Stefan Loefven told the leader of Israel’s opposition Labor party.

Incoming High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Italian Federica Mogherini, said the European Union needs to become an effective player in the Middle East.

Two people died in an explosion that ripped through an explosive material production unit at a nuclear facility near Tehran, according to Iranian press reports on Monday.

The White House said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks that American criticism of Israeli construction in East Jerusalem was against American values, “did seem odd.”

Britain does not class it as a state, but says it could do so at any time if it believed it would help the peace process between the Palestinians and Israel.