French president, Macron, says that France will recognize Palestine as a state

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced Thursday that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid the global snow anger by people who starve in Gaza.

Macron said in an X publication that he will formalize the decision at the United Nations General Assembly in September. “The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza stops and the civilian population is saved,” he published.

The French president offered support to Israel after Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 against Israel and often speaks against anti -Semitism, but has been frustrated more and more by the Israel War in Gaza, especially in recent months.

“Given its historical commitment to a fair and sustainable peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the state of Palestine,” Macron published. “Peace is possible.”

He also published a letter sent to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about the decision.

In a statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel condemned the measure and “rewards terror and runs the risk of creating another Iranian power, as Gaza became.”

“A Palestinian state in these conditions would be a launch platform to annihilate Israel, not to live in peace by their side. Let’s be clear: the Palestinians do not look for a state with Israel; they look for a state instead of Israel,” he said.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry had no immediate comments.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said that the United States “strongly rejects [Macron’s] Plan to recognize a Palestinian State “in the UN General Assembly, writing on Thursday about X:” This reckless decision only serves the propaganda of Hamas and delays peace. It is a slap to the victims of October 7. “

France is the largest and most powerful European country to recognize Palestine. However, more than 140 countries recognize a Palestinian state, the United States is not among them.

France has the largest Jewish population in Europe and the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, and struggles in the Middle East are often extended to protests or other tensions in France.

France’s Foreign Minister is organizing a conference at the UN next week about a solution of two states. Last month, Macron expressed his “determination to recognize the state of Palestine”, and has pressed for a broader movement towards a solution of two states, in parallel with the recognition of Israel and his right to defend himself.

Thursday’s announcement occurred shortly after the United States cut the conversations of Alto El Fuego de Gazar in Qatar, saying that Hamas was not showing good faith.

The impulse has been building against Israel in recent days. Earlier this week, France and more than two dozen mostly European countries condemned Israel’s restrictions in the shipments of help to the territory and the murders of hundreds of Palestinians who tried to reach food.

The Palestinians seek an independent state in the occupied West Bank, annexed Jerusalem East and Gaza, territories that Israel occupied in the Middle East War of 1967. The Government of Israel and the majority of its political class have long opposed the Palestine state and now they say that it would reward the terrorists after the attack of October 7, 2023 of Hamas.

Israel attached Jerusalem, shortly after the 1967 war and considers it part of its capital. In the West Bank, dozens of settlements that now house more than 500,000 Jewish settlers with Israeli citizens have built. The 3 million Palestinians of the territory live under the Israeli military government, with the Palestinian authority that exercises limited autonomy in population centers.

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