U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood immediately ended any chance of successful ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas.
The decisions to recognize a Palestinian state come amid mounting international condemnation of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer describing the “suffering and starvation” in Gaza as “unspeakable and indefensible.”