A 58 per cent majority of Americans believe that every country in the United Nations should recognise Palestine as a nation, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, as Israel and Hamas considered a possible truce in the nearly two-year-long conflict.

Some 33pc of respondents did not agree that UN members should recognise a Palestinian state and 9pc did not answer.

The six-day poll, which closed on Monday, was taken within weeks of three countries, close US allies Canada, Britain and France, announcing they intend to recognise the State of Palestine. This ratcheted up pressure on Israel as starvation spreads in Gaza.

A larger majority of the Reuters/Ipsos poll respondents, 65pc, said the US should take action in Gaza to help people facing starvation, with 28pc disagreeing. The number disagreeing included 41pc of US President Donald Trump’s Republicans.