French President Macron says that France will recognize Palestine as a state star-news.press/wp

French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday that France will recognize Palestine as a country, amid global anger at people who are starving in Gaza.

Macron said in a mail On X it will make the official character of the decision of the United Nations General Assembly in September. “The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza is stopping and that the civilian population is being rescued,” as published.

The French President presented support to Israel after a terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel and often speaks against anti -Semitism, but he has become increasingly frustrated by the Israel war in Gaza, especially in recent months.

“Given its historical commitment to a fair and sustainable peace in the Middle East, it decided that France will learn about the situation of Palestine,” Macron’s publication. “Peace is possible.”

He also published a message he sent to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the decision.

In a statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel was “strongly” condemned this step and that it “rewarded terrorism and dangers in creating another Iranian agent, just as Gaza has become.”

He said, “The Palestinian state in these circumstances will be a launching platform to inform Israel – we do not live in peace next to it. Let’s be clear: the Palestinians do not seek a state alongside Israel; they are looking for a state instead of Israel.”

The Israeli Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment.

France is the largest and strongest European country recognizing Palestine. More than 140 countries realize the Palestinian state, however, the United States is not among them.

France includes the largest number of Jewish population in Europe and the largest number of Muslim population in Western Europe, and fighting in the Middle East is often based on protests or other tensions in France.

Foreign Minister in France will participate in hosting a conference at the United Nations next week on a two -state solution. Last month, Macron expressed his “determination to get to know the situation of Palestine”, and he pushed a broader movement towards a two -state solution, in parallel with the recognition of Israel and its right to defend itself.

The announcement on Thursday came shortly after the United States cutting talks in Gaza in Qatar, saying that Hamas was not improving the intention.

The momentum has been built against Israel in recent days. Earlier this week, France and more than twenty European countries condemned Israel’s restrictions on the shipments of aid to the region and the killing of hundreds of Palestinians trying to reach food.

The Palestinians have been seeking an independent state in the occupied West Bank, the annexation of East Jerusalem and Gaza, and the Israeli provinces that it occupied in the Middle East war in 1967. long ago, the government of Israel and most of its political class against the Palestinian state and now say it will reward the terrorists after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

East Jerusalem, shortly after the 1967 war and considers it part of its capital. In the West Bank, it built dozens of settlements that are now home to more than 500,000 Jewish settlements with Israeli nationality. The 3 million Palestinians live in the region under the Israeli military rule, as the Palestinian Authority has limited independence in the population centers.