MPs have voted overwhelmingly to recognise a Palestinian state.
The vote - which ended 274 to 12 in favour - is not binding on the government but has been described as symbolically important.
The UK does not currently recognise Palestine - though is committed to doing so eventually as part of a two-state solution.
Labour MP Grahame Morris tabled a motion for immediate recognition, prompting the first full debate on the issue since 2012.
MPs eventually voted in favour of an amendment tabled by grandees from the three major parties to recognise a Palestinian state as a "contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution".
However, David Cameron's spokesman indicted before the vote that the UK's policy would not change - meaning there would be no immediate recognition.
Even so, Mr Morris told the Commons a vote in favour would be a "small but symbolically important" step.
He argued that Britain's failure to recognise Palestine would contribute to Israel's "crusade" to a one-state solution.
"I contend, and many informed commentators would agree with me, that any hope of a two-state solution - the only viable solution - will have disappeared altogether (if Palestine isn't recognised)," he told MPs.
"Instead, Israel will continue its crusade towards the morally repugnant and politically untenable one-state solution and in truth that could only be maintained through even greater brutality and effectively through apartheid rule - a fate so bleak any true friend of Israel would oppose it."
The motion attracted support from across the political divide.
The Labour shadow cabinet is thought to have backed it - though ministers from the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats abstained.
Tory Matthew Offord explained why he was voting against: "The proposal for this House to recognise Palestinian statehood is not only premature but it is also misguided.
"An affirmative vote tonight will be nothing more than a propaganda victory for those who wish to bypass the mediation peace process in favour of international institutions by the United Nations where the Palestinian Authority enjoys a majority."
The 12 MPs who voted against were made up of six Tories (Mr Offord, Bob Blackman, Jonathan Djanogly, Mike Freer, Nigel Mills and Robert Syms), five Democratic Unionists (Nigel Dodds, William McCrea, Ian Paisley, Jim Shannon and David Simpson) and a Liberal Democrat (Sir Alan Beith).
Among EU countries, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia have already recognised Palestine as a state - while Sweden recently provoked an angry response from Israel by saying it would follow suit.
In 2012, 138 countries voted to give the Palestinians "non-observer" member status at the UN General Assembly, which is seen as de facto recognition of a sovereign state.
Britain was among 40 countries to abstain on the 2012 vote, which was opposed by Israel, the US, Canada, Czech Republic, Panama, Palau, Nauru, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia.
A summer conflict in Gaza claimed the lives of more than 2,100 Palestinians - mostly civilians. Israel suffered 70 fatalities - all but six soldiers.
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