France Will Recognise State Of Palestine
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The leaders of Britain, France, and Germany plan to hold an emergency call Friday about the hunger crisis in Gaza.
French President Emmanuel Macron shared a letter addressed to the leader of the Palestinian Authority on Thursday, citing a need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
France has announced its intention to become the first member of the Group of Seven to recognize Palestine as a state. Ireland, Norway and Spain have already done so, breaking from a consensus within Western Europe and the US that the Palestinians should achieve statehood through negotiations with Israel.
Emmanuel Macron’s position on a Palestinian state “doesn’t matter,” President Donald Trump said after the French president announced he would recognise the war-torn territory as a state.
There are 147 UN member states out of 193 that recognise the state of Palestine - but the UK is not one of them