\n By Euronews\n<\/p>\n
\n Published on
\n 11\/11\/2025 – 20:08 GMT+1\n <\/p>\n
President Emmanuel Macron has said France will form a \u201cjoint panel\u201d with the Palestinian Authority to draw up a new constitution for Palestine.<\/p>\n
Macron made the remarks after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris.<\/p>\n
“We decided together to establish a joint committee for the consolidation of the state of Palestine,” Macron said, adding that it would “contribute to drawing up a new constitution, a draft of which president Abbas presented to me”.<\/p>\n
Abbas said he agreed “to the swift establishment of the constitutional committee”.<\/p>\n
Reforming the governing body is essential for a “democratic and sovereign Palestinian state, living in peace and security alongside Israel”, the president\u2019s office said prior to the talks.<\/p>\n
The meeting comes a month into a fragile US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas, following two years of devastating war in Gaza triggered by the militant group’s incursion into southern Israel in 2023.<\/p>\n
It also comes just weeks after France joined a raft of other, mostly western European, countries in recognising Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n
Abbas has headed the Palestinian Authority for 20 years, a body which has limited control over parts of the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n
The authority is being considered to take over the governance of Gaza as part of the ceasefire deal.<\/p>\n
The two leaders also discussed Israeli plans for full annexation of the West Bank, which Macron called a “red line” for Paris.<\/p>\n
“Plans for partial or total annexation, whether legal or de facto, constitute a red line to which we will respond strongly with our European partners,” Macron said.<\/p>\n
“The violence of the settlers and the acceleration of settlement projects are reaching new heights, threatening the stability of the West Bank and constitute violations of international law.”<\/p>\n
Brokered by US President Donald Trump, the ceasefire, which came into effect on 10 October, has been tested by Israeli air strikes and claims of Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers.<\/p>\n
Trump said last week he expected an International Stabilisation Force tasked with monitoring the ceasefire to be on the ground in Gaza “very soon.”<\/p>\n
Abbas ‘manipulating France’<\/p>\n
The visit sparked anger in Israel with the country’s embassy in Paris accusing Abbas of “manipulating France” in a post on X. <\/p>\n
The post slammed Abbas as a “Holocaust denier” whose popularity rating among Palestinians is “less than 15%.” <\/p>\n
The statement also claims that the Palestinian Authority uses part of the funds allocated by France and other European countries to “finance Abbas’ lavish lifestyle (…) and pay terrorists on a ‘Pay for Slay’ basis.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Euronews Published on 11\/11\/2025 – 20:08 GMT+1 President Emmanuel Macron has said France will form a \u201cjoint panel\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[99,42,80588,3893,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-128022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-israel-palestine-peace-process","11":"tag-mahmoud-abbas","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}