France recognizes the state of Palestine and undergoes the wrath of Israel and Washington

France defended its decision on Friday to recognize the state of Palestine. Furthermore, saying that it aims to “give reason to the peace camp”, in response to the virulent criticisms of Israel and the United States which accuse Paris of playing the game of Hamas.

Paris does not reward the Palestinian Islamist movement, but he proveOn Friday said Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot.

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The announcement made Thursday evening by President Emmanuel Macron that he will formally recognize a state of Palestine in the General Assembly of the United Nations. For example, in September in New York, angered Israel, which denounced a Terror france recognizes state palestine undergoes Awardin reference to the unprecedented attack in Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

More than 140 states have already done so

Country of the G7. Nevertheless, permanent member of the Security Council of theHimFrance will join a group of at least 142 other states in September which recognized a Palestinian state, according to a count of theAFP.

Let’s be clear: the Palestinians do not seek to obtain a state alongside Israel. they seek a state in the place of Israellaunched Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.

Close ally of Israel. the United States also have firmly rejected this decision reckless Who only serves Hamas’ propaganda and makes the peace process go backaccording to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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The United States Ambassador to Israel. Mike Huckabee, quipped Macron on Friday had not specified where the future Palestinian state would be located. I can now reveal exclusively that France will offer the Côte d’Azurhe wrote on X.

Mr. Macron also faces criticisms in France. from the right and the far right, whose leader Marine Le Pen considered that Recognizing a Palestinian state today is to recognize a Hamas state and therefore a terrorist state.

“A moral fault”

The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) denounced a moral fault. a diplomatic error and a political danger. France is home to the france recognizes state palestine undergoes first Jewish community in Europe, with nearly 500,000 people (less than 1 % of the population).

This announcement appears to be a French attempt to move the lines. while discussions for a cease-fire skate, after 21 months of a war which plunged Gaza into a disastrous humanitarian situation.

Since the October 7 attack. which killed 1219 people on the Israeli side, according to a count of theAFP Made from official data, Israel conducts military reprisals which left 59,587 dead in Gaza, according to data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, deemed reliable by theHim.

Israel faces increasing international pressure to authorize massive access to humanitarian aid in the Palestinian territory. where a grande proportion france recognizes state palestine undergoes of the population dies of hungeraccording to the boss of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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A quarter of children under the age of 5. pregnant and breastfeeding women examined last week by Doctors Without france recognizes state palestine undergoes Borders (MSF) in Gaza suffer from malnutrition, said theONG Friday, denouncing The deliberate use of hunger as a weapon of war.

British leaders Keir Starmer. French Emmanuel Macron and German Friedrich Merz must hold one on Friday emergency interviewscheduled before France’s announcement, to see how Stop the massacres and provide the population with the food it is desperately needed.

If Ireland, Spain, Norway and Slovenia acted recognition of the state of Palestine in 2024, Europeans remain divided on this issue. Berlin repeated Friday Do not consider recognizing a short -term Palestinian state.

France will co -reside in September with Saudi Arabia an international conference in terms of heads of state. government to try to relaunch the so -called solution two -statesPalestinian france recognizes state palestine undergoes and Israeli.

Paris will mobilize all those of its international partners who wish to take partwrote Emmanuel Macron. on Friday in a letter to the president of the Palestinian authority Mahmoud Abbas. A meeting at the of ministers on the subject is held Monday and Tuesday in New York.