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French President Emmanuel Macron said it was now the “last minute before proposing the two states would become totally impossible”.(Reuters) <\/p>\nPublished on: Sept 19, 2025 03:28 am IST <\/p>\n
France and Britain are among several Western countries that have pledged to formally recognise a Palestinian state this month at UNGA.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
French President Emmanuel Macron insisted Thursday that recognising a Palestinian state would isolate the militant group Hamas and reiterated his condemnation of Israel’s devastating offensive in Gaza.<\/p>\n
French President Emmanuel Macron said it was now the “last minute before proposing the two states would become totally impossible”.(Reuters) <\/p>\n
“Recognising a Palestinian state is just deciding to say: ‘The legitimate perspective of Palestinian people and what they suffer today has nothing to do with Hamas,'” Macron said in English in an interview with Israeli television’s Channel 12.<\/p>\n
“Recognition of a Palestinian state is the best way to isolate Hamas.”<\/p>\n
France and Britain are among several Western countries that have pledged to formally recognise a Palestinian state this month at the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n
Their plan aims to sideline Hamas and allow a two-state solution to the decades-long Arab-Israeli conflict — a proposal resisted by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n
With Israeli settlers pushing to occupy Palestinian territory in the West Bank, Macron said it was now the “last minute before proposing the two states would become totally impossible”.<\/p>\n
Israeli tanks and jets pounded Gaza City on Thursday in a major ground offensive, the latest phase in the two-year assault sparked by deadly Hamas attacks in October 2023.<\/p>\n
Those attacks resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally of official figures.<\/p>\n
Israel’s retaliatory campaign has killed at least 65,141 people, also mostly civilians, according to figures from the territory’s health ministry that the United Nations considers reliable.<\/p>\n
“This type of operations in Gaza is totally counterproductive” and “a failure”, Macron said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are completely destroying the image and the credibility of Israel, not just in the region, but in public opinion everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
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