The United States, Israel condemns France’s move to recognize the Palestinian state Israeli conflict news

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington “strongly rejects” French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan Learn about a Palestinian stateThe administration of President Donald Trump has also announced that it will not attend the next United Nations conference to obtain a two -state solution for the Palestinians.

After publishing at X late on Thursday, Rubio criticized “Macron’s reckless decision”, which said, “He only serves Hamas propaganda and restores peace.”

Earlier, Macron said he would formally give France’s decision to formally recognize the Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September.

“In line with its historical commitment to a fair and permanent peace in the Middle East, I decided that France will get to know the situation of Palestine,” Macron wrote on X.

At least 142 countries out of 193 members of the United Nations are currently getting to know or plan to recognize a Palestinian state. But many powerful Western countries – including the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany – refused to do so.

Its colleagues of the European Union Norway, Ireland and Spain Referred to in May They started the process to get to know the Palestinian state.

But Macron’s decision will make France – one of the closest allies of Israel and one of the G7 – the largest and most influential in Europe to take this step.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the decision, saying that this step “is equivalent to terrorism and dangers in creating another Iranian agent.”

He said in a post on X.

Netanyahu added: “Let’s be clear: the Palestinians do not search for a state alongside Israel; they are looking for a state instead of Israel.”

Israeli Minister of Defense described Israel Katz this step as “a stigma and surrenders to terrorism.” He added that Israel will not allow the creation of “a Palestinian entity that would harm our security and be at risk.”

While supporting the Dot solution is still the official position of the United States for a long time, President Donald Trump has expressed doubts about his validity. Since his return to the White House in January, Trump suggested that the “United States” could “take over” Gaza, provide more than two million Palestinian people, and turn it into “Riviera from the Middle East”.

Trump’s plan was condemned by the rights groups, Arab, Palestinian countries and the United Nations as “ethnic cleansing”.

In June, Washington’s Ambassador to Israel, Mike Hakapi, said he did not believe that an independent Palestinian state remained a target of US foreign policy.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Tami Bruce prompted Hakapi to say “talking about himself” and making policies is the issue of Trump and the White House.

On Thursday, Deputy Foreign Ministry spokesman Tommy Begut said the United States will not attend a coming conference that is scheduled to be held at the United Nations on the two -state solution. The conference-which participated in the presidency of France and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is to be held from 28 to 30 July-to draw a road map to end the decades-continuing conflict and get to know a Palestinian state.

Speaking to reporters, Pigott said that there is nothing else to say about the issue other than that Washington “will not be present.”

There is increasing pressure on Israel to end its deadly war on Gaza, which it waged in the wake of the October 7, 2023, attacks on southern Israel, which witnessed about 1139 people who were killed and more than 200 prisoners who were transferred to the Palestinian enclave.

The subsequent Israeli attack for 21 months on Gaza killed nearly 60,000 Palestinians, with another 144,000.

The ceasefire negotiations have failed for months-which were mediated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar-in a breakthrough.

On Monday, 28 countries – including the United Kingdom, Japan and many European countries – A joint statement Israel telling the war on Gaza “must end now.”

The joint statement also condemned the “drainage of aid and inhuman killing of civilians, including children, who seek to meet their basic water and food needs.”