France will officially recognize the state of Palestine, "true to its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East," Emmanuel Macron said.

A total of 221 British Members of Parliament from multiple political parties have signed an open letter urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to officially recognise Palestine as a state. The letter was sent ahead of a key UN conference on Palestine set to take place in New York on July 28 and 29,

Georges Abdallah, a 74-year-old Lebanese teacher who became a left-wing symbol for the Palestinian cause, is to be freed by France on Friday after 41 years in jail. Described by his lawyer as "the man who has spent the longest time in prison for events linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,