{"id":19262,"date":"2025-09-22T21:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=19262"},"modified":"2025-09-22T21:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:56:34","slug":"we-can-no-longer-wait-france-joins-wave-of-countries-recognizing-palestinian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/we-can-no-longer-wait-france-joins-wave-of-countries-recognizing-palestinian-state\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We can no longer wait&#8217;: France joins wave of countries recognizing Palestinian state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">President Emmanuel Macron uses a UN meeting to say that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cpw1qkyke4nt?post=asset%3A70cf50ee-d220-4a7b-8e5b-40c14d943565#post\">France will join the UK, Canada and Australia<\/a>\u00a0in formally recognising a Palestinian state<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">&#8220;We can no longer wait,&#8221; he says, adding that recognition is a necessary step to break the spiral of violence and secure peace<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">The French leader also calls for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas and an end to the war in Gaza<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Israeli PM\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cpw1qkyke4nt?post=asset%3A4919be81-1d96-4435-be07-908793f898ee#post\">Benjamin Netanyahu says recognition gives &#8220;a huge reward to terrorism&#8221;<\/a>, and that a Palestinian state &#8220;will not happen&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas&#8217; attack on southern Israel in October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-56.png?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-56.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-56.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-56.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-56.png?resize=747%2C420&amp;ssl=1 747w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-56.png?resize=696%2C392&amp;ssl=1 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">While the UN meeting on the two-state solution continues, let&#8217;s have a quick recap of the key lines we heard from some of the biggest names in attendance in New York.<ul><li>Announcing France&#8217;s recognition of a Palestinian state, Macron told the UN that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cpw1qkyke4nt?post=asset%3A898b2f82-0cb9-4b62-b490-621965dd667b#post\">nothing justifies<\/a>\u00a0the ongoing war&#8221; in GazaBut he stressed that giving Palestinians rights\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cpw1qkyke4nt?post=asset%3Afc11ede0-1d02-4f0f-9ddc-9f0c6a667fc8#post\">does not take away<\/a>\u00a0from the rights of the IsraelisUN chief Antonio Guterres also warned Israel not to respond with an annexation of the West Bank, suggesting that &#8220;the relentless\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cpw1qkyke4nt?post=asset%3Ad10c3f98-e850-40ff-a924-f567486c347d#post\">expansion of settlements<\/a>&#8221; in the region must stopStatehood for Palestinians &#8220;is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cpw1qkyke4nt?post=asset%3A591e601c-d38c-4cb7-860b-61cbf79c9faa#post\">right and not a reward<\/a>&#8220;, he addedJoining the conference remotely, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for Hamas to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cpw1qkyke4nt?post=asset%3A7df5acb3-c8e8-4dc2-825c-bba7d4ab57a6#post\">surrender its weapons<\/a>\u00a0as he looked ahead to a future for Gaza that, he said, would not include Hamas<\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the UN meeting on the two-state solution continues, let&#8217;s have a quick recap of the key lines we heard from some of the biggest names in attendance in New York. Announcing France&#8217;s recognition of a Palestinian state, Macron told the UN that &#8220;nothing justifies\u00a0the ongoing war&#8221; in GazaBut he stressed that giving Palestinians rights\u00a0does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-naija-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-55.png?fit=974%2C552&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19265,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19262\/revisions\/19265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}